John Moran

Researcher

CNGL/ADAPT

John Moran is the developer of iOmegaT, a state-of-the-art analytics suite developed in collaboration with Welocalize to help some of the world’s largest buyers of post-editing services measure and improve translator productivity. After graduating with degrees in computer science, linguistics and German from Trinity College Dublin, John lectured in technical translation at the same university. He is the co-owner of Transpiral, a boutique technical translation agency he founded in 1998, and has over a decade of experience in software application development. Currently he is in the final phase of a PhD at the Centre for Next Generation Localisation where he developed a method to field test the impact of computational linguistic technology on translator productivity.