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Translating research software: Localization of the Sketch Engine user interface

To start this year, the Translate Science core contributors are collaborating with the Institut Translatologie to host a talk about the challenges and best practices of localizing (research) software. We hope that this event can inform participants and serve to bring together others engaging with issues in multilingual open science.

Our guest Christopher Hertweck localized the user interface of Sketch Engine, a tool for creating and analyzing text corpora, from English into German as part of an internship project with a small team of students. Join us online on Tuesday February 24th at 14:00 UTC to hear more about this project.

Christopher Hertweck is a translator, editor and writer. He has worked as both an in-house and a freelance translator from English to German, mainly in software localization, academic and technical translation. He studied History and German Literature (B.A.) at the Humboldt University of Berlin and Translatology (M.A.) at Leipzig University. He currently lives and works in Berlin.

Join us to hear from them how they incorporate open and multilingual science in their work.

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JOIN CODE: DE-EN_sketchenginelocalization


OpenEdition suggests that you cite this post as follows:
Translate Science Initiative (January 24, 2026). Translating research software: Localization of the Sketch Engine user interface. Translate Science. Retrieved March 14, 2026 from https://transci.hypotheses.org/219885


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