Arabic-L:GEN:RSS news feed for Linguists

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1) Subject:RSS news feed for Linguists

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Date: 02 Jan 2006
From:webmaster at inttranews.net
Subject:RSS news feed for Linguists

Rouen, France: Inttranews (www.inttranews.net), the news site for  
linguists, is part of a new generation of news feeds, sourcing and  
supplying articles that are of genuine interest to readers.

New information and communication technology and the Internet have  
enabled access to a vast amount of data and documents, many of them  
by means of RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds, which can be  
placed on a website and are updated with news items whenever the  
source site is updated.

Because standard RSS feeds are entirely automated, however, they have  
resulted in an “information overload“: 99% of the information is  
useless in the sense it bears no relation to individual readers, who  
must spend precious time searching and sorting for information of  
genuine interest, concern or use. The reason is simple: no computer  
is capable of deciding whether an article is of genuine interest or  
not, on the one hand because our criteria are context-related and can  
change from one moment to the next, and partly because the interest- 
content ratio is a sliding scale, not a pre-determined proportion.

Inttranews, designed for and read by more than 13,000 professional  
linguists each month, overcomes these handicaps by applying  
linguistic rules developed in-house to source articles, and by  
calling on the skills and experience of human editors to sort the  
articles sourced by Internet search engines.

Now Inttranews has gone one step further towards a fully-targeted  
news service, by providing a multi-level RSS feed: readers can select  
the categories of articles they wish to receive within the general  
theme of news on languages and linguists.

Inttranews can be syndicated, free of charge, by any website  
interested in languages and linguists, either as a general RSS feed,  
as a categorical news feed (in both cases with text only), or using i- 
frame technology for image and text content.

The service has been syndicated by institutions such as the  
International Federation of Translators (FIT) [www.fit-ift.org],  
representing more than 100,000 interpreters and translators in 60  
countries, and by the European Union of Associations of Translation  
Companies (EUATC) [www.euatc.org], representing more than 500  
translation companies in 20 countries.

To access Inttranews RSS Feed, click on “RSS feed” in the left hand  
menu of the Inttranews.

To unsubscribe, send a blank email to unsubscribe at inttra.net

About
Inttranews is one of a range of products for the global language  
industry designed and developed by HTT (www.htt.fr), an ISO 9001  
(v2000)-certified translation company specialized in high technology  
located in Rouen, France. Founded in 1987, its customer base  
comprises international institutions and multinational companies,  
particularly in aeronautics, electronic engineering, mechanical  
engineering and petrochemicals.
Other products designed and developed by HTT include the multilingual  
Inttranet'tm) portal (www.inttra.net) with a complete range of  
services for professional interpreters and translators, and Terminall 
(tm), an ISO 12616-compliant multilingual terminology database,  
capable of storing, managing and displaying any language combination  
of search and target terms.

HTT s.a.
216, route de Neufchâtel,
76420 Bihorel, France

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