Everything about Uwe Muegge totally explained
Uwe Muegge (pronounced [ˈuːvəmygə]), (b.
1960) is an innovator and educator in the field of
translation.
Muegge has developed several
controlled languages, a number of tools and processes for automatic
terminology extraction and
dictionary creation, and is a pioneer in the areas of implementing automated tools for writing source documents in a controlled environment, using
machine translation tools, and automatically checking target documents. Muegge is serving in various professional special industry groups, has presented at international conferences, and is a member of the U.S. delegation to the
International Organization for Standardization (ISO). His book
Translation Contract is the standard reference for specifying translation work orders.
Muegge's website
is based on a controlled language that enables automatic
machine translation into eleven languages. The
Alexa traffic ranking service lists this website among the 100 most popular translation sites, having attracted visitors from more than 110 countries.
Biography
Muegge was born in
Stuttgart,
Germany and received his
undergraduate education in
English linguistics,
American studies, and
political science at
Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He earned a
Master of Arts degree in Telecommunication and Film from the
University of Oregon and a Master of Arts degree in German Translation from the
Monterey Institute of International Studies. Muegge has also pursued doctoral studies in
applied linguistics at the
University of Leipzig.
Muegge is an expert in automating processes relating to the management of
terminology,
writing,
translation and
localization projects and has provided consulting services to global corporations such es
DaimlerChrysler,
SAP, and
Sun Microsystems.
Uwe Muegge currently works for
Medtronic, the world's largest
medical technology company, as a
corporate terminologist and holds an
adjunct professor teaching position at the
Monterey Institute of International Studies where he teaches courses in
computer-assisted translation and
terminology management.
He is married to Christine Muegge, a
midwifery educator and published author, with whom he's three daughters.
Contributions
Muegge has developed a number of processes and tools for improving the productivity and quality of various steps in the writing-to-translation workflow:
Terminology work
Uwe Muegge has developed a number of automatic terminology extraction solutions. One of these solutions was evaluated by the
Swiss Federal Chancellery, which determined the results of Muegge's extraction process to be superior to those produced by the market leader
Trados. He also developed a process for automatically creating
machine-readable dictionaries from printed dictionaries.
Controlled language
Muegge has developed the CLOUT rule set (Controlled Language Optimized for Uniform Translation), a controlled language that he designed for writing documents that are suitable for translation with
machine translation systems. A subset of the CLOUT rules is published on
this website.
Machine translation
Muegge designed a process for integrating any
machine translation tool into TMX-compliant
translation memory tools. He also developed a solution for automatically translating descriptions in product
databases.
Web design and Internationalization
Muegge's website is a model solution for an
internationalization approach that uses
machine translation to automatically create virtual versions of a website in another language. The text in this website was created using his CLOUT rule set, which, combined with
Google’s language tools, produce machine-generated translations that are largely comprehensible, if not completely well-formed.
Translation
Muegge is the author of a model solution for specifying translation work orders and is a member of the German Association of Technical Communicators (tekom) Translation SIG that developed the translation quality assurance tool
QualiAssistent.
Selected publications
Books and articles
Interviews and reviews
Other achievements
Photography
Muegge has received a formal education in photography, and the United States Information Agency sponsored several individual exhibitions of his “Keepers of the Light” project in Germany. His infrared photography project “Adrift in the Southwest” was sponsored and produced by Philip Morris International.
Endurance sports
Muegge crossed the Alps on foot following the 425 mile (685 km) GR 5 route that originates near Lake Geneva and ends at the city of Nice on the Mediterranean Sea. He also walked the 268 mile (429 km) Pennine Way stretching from the Derbyshire Peak District to the border of Scotland in the UK, participated in the Inferno Race (the world's oldest and one of the longest downhill ski races) in Switzerland, completed several Olympic-distance triathlons, and his marathon best is 3:34 h.
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