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Mirko Plitt is Senior Manager, Language Technologies, in the localization department of Autodesk, the leading maker of CAD software best known for its AutoCAD product family.
In 2001, Mirko led one of the industry’s first deployments of customer-facing raw machine translation, to translate Autodesk’s vast product support knowledge base. He later oversaw the introduction of a company-wide authoring, publishing and translation management system used by hundreds of technical writers, localization engineers and translators. Mirko was then responsible for the integration of machine translation into Autodesk’s translation productivity environment, allegedly the industry’s largest production instance of the open-source Moses system. In this context he organized several rigorous productivity and usability tests which led to unprecedented findings on the real usefulness of machine translation.
Mirko has presented at numerous localization and machine translation events in Europe, the USA and Asia. Most recently, he also organized the first Swiss Translation Unconference, which brought together translators and representatives from industry, government, international organizations, tool makers, education and research.
