Jaap van der Meer
Jaap van der Meer founded TAUS in 2004. He is a language industry pioneer and visionary, who started his first translation company, INK, in The Netherlands in 1980. Jaap is a regular speaker at conferences and author of many articles about technologies, translation and globalization trends.
07/05/2026
The translation industry must evolve beyond traditional TMS to embrace AI and Quality Estimation technology, ensuring cultural intelligence and brand integrity.
05/12/2025
Explore how TAUS EPIC API's Quality Estimation can revolutionize translation workflows, that offer scalable, domain-specific solutions for Language Service Providers without the need for in-house NLP experts.
24/11/2025
TRSB partners with TAUS to develop a specialized Canadian French Quality Estimation model, enhancing multilingual content quality scalability in Canada.
08/08/2025
TAUS partners with Library of Business to provide industry-specific datasets for AI training, enhancing the performance of small language models and addressing evolving data needs.
03/06/2025
Discover how AI and innovation are transforming the localization industry and challenging traditional methods.
21/11/2024
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of TAUS this month caused the team to look back at the predictions and outcomes so far. What have we achieved? What went wrong?
02/04/2024
The evolution of the language industry over the past two decades includes a transition from rule-based Machine Translation to the integration of AI. Learn more about how two industries converge at the TAUS conferences in Rome and Albuquerque this year.
16/05/2023
Understanding our new leap in Artificial Intelligence and its impact on the industry.
11/05/2023
A look into how TAUS approaches the automatization of Translation Quality Review with the TAUS EPIC API.
31/03/2023
How is ChatGPT being used by the translation industry and is it really fit for the purposes of machine translation or language data for AI applications?
30/06/2022
TAUS recently launched DeMT™. This article provides context and more information on this recipe for improved MT.
02/12/2021
The next logical translation solution: Data Enhanced Machine Translation (DEMT)
01/10/2021
The factors that impact the reconfiguration of the translation industry in the 2020s and emerging pricing and licensing models: The Owned, Public, Private, Hosted and Shared.
03/08/2021
Looking into the future of the translation industry under seven sections where automated translation is no longer just a freebie on the internet, but entering the real economy of the translation sector, and it changes everything.
22/12/2020
With data taking the center stage, our message for 2021 is: be wary of inequality in our ecosystem as a result of this fantastic AI revolution. Pay your translators and the data keepers who keep your data in optima forma fairly.
05/11/2020
TAUS Launches the Data Marketplace, the first and only language data monetization and acquisition platform.
07/05/2020
Two hundred people responded to our survey about the state of the translation industry in the summer of 2021. In this series, we will sequentially analyze each post-corona scenario: Redux, Reshuffle, Recession, Reinvention.
29/04/2020
Two-hundred people responded to our survey about the state of the translation industry in the summer of 2021. In this series, we will sequentially analyze each post-corona scenario: Redux, Reshuffle, Recession, Reinvention.
08/04/2020
What will be the post-corona situation for the translation industry: reshuffle, recession, redux or reinvention? You are invited as users and stakeholders in the global translation industry to vote on what you think is the most likely scenario for our industry in 2021.
06/04/2020
Massively Multilingual (M2) represents a new conceptual space and the new TAUS Events program where language technology and data converge to support a myriad of applications in all fields of commerce, government, society and science.