Organizations

Localization Industry Standards Association. http://www.lisa.org. Nonprofit organization for the globalization, internationalization, localization, and translation business community.

Association of Translation Companies. Although this is an actual name of an association (in the U.K.), it is a commonly used phrase in many countries. For example, there is the Spanish Association of Translation Companies, the Hellenic Association of Translation Companies (Greece), and the Association of Hungarian Translation Companies. If you are looking for such an association in a specific country, try searching for the same combination of words and insert the language name somewhere in the phrase (e.g., "Association of Finnish Translation Companies").

European Union of Associations of Translation Companies (EUATC). http://www.euatc.org.

The Localization Institute. http://www.localizationinstitute.com. Providers of training, seminars, conferences, and internationalization resources.

The Globalization and Localization Association (GALA). http://www.gala-global.org. News, events, resources, and membership to GALA.

International Association for Machine Translation (IAMT). Publishes a newsletter, organizes workshops and conferences, and compiles a resource listing. The association is an umbrella for the following more local branches:

Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA). http://www.amtaweb.org.

Asian-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT). http://www.aamt.info.

European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT). http://www.eamt.org.

The Translation Automation User Society. http://www.translationautomation.com. A networking community for users of translation and localization technologies and services. As the name implies, TAUS is focused on the automation of translation.