Elanex
Encyclopedia
Elanex, Inc. commonly known as Elanex, is a translation technology and services company based in San Francisco, California
, USA
that provides localization, translation
, and interpreting
services. Elanex primarily provides human translation, with only the aid of technology, but companies also request use of Elanex's machine translation
technology. The company, founded in 2002 by Jonathan Kirk, has operations in Silicon Valley
and San Francisco, California
, USA
; Tokyo
and Fukuoka
, Japan
; Sydney
and Melbourne
, Australia
; Montreal
, Canada
; Rome
, Italy
; and Antwerp, Belgium
.
In 2007, the company announced the creation of the Translation Search Engine (TSE), a new form of translation memory
pre-populated with 30 million translated sentences. The TSE is the first translation memory tool that allows for free use through bartering, as noted by Jost Zetzsche
in his biweekly Tool Kit and the article "Are we profitable?" In 2008, Elanex paired the TSE with a managed services
platform for translation crowdsourcing
called ElanexCROWD.
A significant contribution to Elanex automation technology was made by Tom Dillon, former COO of Netflix
, who was largely responsible for Netflix's proprietary automation technologies.
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
that provides localization, translation
Translation
Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target-language text. Whereas interpreting undoubtedly antedates writing, translation began only after the appearance of written literature; there exist partial translations of the Sumerian Epic of...
, and interpreting
Interpreting
Language interpretation is the facilitating of oral or sign-language communication, either simultaneously or consecutively, between users of different languages...
services. Elanex primarily provides human translation, with only the aid of technology, but companies also request use of Elanex's machine translation
Machine translation
Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of computer software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.On a basic...
technology. The company, founded in 2002 by Jonathan Kirk, has operations in Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
and San Francisco, California
San Francisco, California
San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland...
, USA
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
; Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...
and Fukuoka
Fukuoka, Fukuoka
is the capital city of Fukuoka Prefecture and is situated on the northern shore of the island of Kyushu in Japan.Voted number 14 in a 2010 poll of the World's Most Livable Cities, Fukuoka is praised for its green spaces in a metropolitan setting. It is the most populous city in Kyushu, followed by...
, Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
; Sydney
Sydney
Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...
and Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
; Montreal
Montreal
Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
; Rome
Rome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, Italy
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
; and Antwerp, Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
.
In 2007, the company announced the creation of the Translation Search Engine (TSE), a new form of translation memory
Translation memory
A translation memory, or TM, is a database that stores so-called "segments", which can be sentences or sentence-like units that have previously been translated. A translation memory system stores the words, phrases and paragraphs that have already been translated, in order to aid human translators...
pre-populated with 30 million translated sentences. The TSE is the first translation memory tool that allows for free use through bartering, as noted by Jost Zetzsche
Jost Zetzsche
Jost Oliver Zetzsche is a German-American translator, sinologist and writer who lives in Oregon.-Biography:Zetzsche got his Master of Arts in Chinese Studies and German Linguistics, 1993, at the University of Hamburg . Afterwards he earned a Ph.D...
in his biweekly Tool Kit and the article "Are we profitable?" In 2008, Elanex paired the TSE with a managed services
Managed services
Managed services is the practice of transferring day-to-day related management responsibility as a strategic method for improved effective and efficient operations inclusive of Production Support and lifecycle build/maintenance activities...
platform for translation crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing is the act of sourcing tasks traditionally performed by specific individuals to a group of people or community through an open call....
called ElanexCROWD.
A significant contribution to Elanex automation technology was made by Tom Dillon, former COO of Netflix
Netflix
Netflix, Inc., is an American provider of on-demand internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, and Latin America and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The company was established in 1997 and is headquartered in Los Gatos, California...
, who was largely responsible for Netflix's proprietary automation technologies.