The Translation Automation User Society (TAUS), a global community of 65 organizations, in early 2007 determined the need for industry-wide tools in order to meet the ever-increasing commercial and societal demand for translation, with a shared industry database of translation memories and terminology as one of the fundamental building blocks to support future growth and innovation.
Backed by 45 international companies, the TAUS Data Association (TDA) was then founded in the summer of 2008 to provide for such a giant multilingual database.
While joining TDA might not be justifiable for some businesses (both translation buyers and language service providers) and individual translators, even though it would provide them with improved access to the data, the TDA Search Engine provides non-members with a method of benefiting to a certain extent from the same pool of data, albeit not by automated means, such as translation memories, afforded to paying members.
To assess whether a TDA membership would be worth your while, take a look at the TDA Member Regulations.
In the meantime, enjoy the benefits of the TDA Search Engine directly on your desktop with the help of the TAUS Widget. Please note that the unlimited free use of the TAUS Widget requires free registration.
The system requirements for TAUS Widget are:
- Operating System: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Mac OS X 10.5.7, Debian Linux, Redhat Linux
- Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6: 1.6.0_x
