Monthly Archives: January 2026

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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.

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