Uwe Muegge

Uwe Muegge (, born 1960) is an educator and innovator in the field of translation, localization, and terminology management.
Muegge has developed several controlled languages, a number of tools and processes for automatic terminology extraction and dictionary creation, and he is a pioneer in the teaching cloud-based computer-assisted translation, machine translation, and terminology management.
Muegge is serving in various professional special industry groups, has presented at international conferences, and is a member of the U.S. delegation to the Muegge's website is based on a controlled language that enables high-quality automatic machine translation into thirteen languages.
Biography
Muegge was born in Stuttgart, Germany and received his undergraduate education in English linguistics, American studies, and political science at Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. He earned a Master of Arts degree in Telecommunication and Film from the University of Oregon and a Master of Arts degree in German Translation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Muegge has also pursued doctoral studies in applied linguistics at the University of Leipzig.
Muegge is an expert in automating processes relating to the management of terminology, writing, translation and localization projects and has provided consulting services to global corporations such as DaimlerChrysler, SAP, and Sun Microsystems.
Uwe Muegge has worked for Medtronic, the world's largest medical technology company, as a corporate terminologist and holds a director position with CSOFT, a language service provider based in Beijing, in addition to his teaching position at the Monterey Institute of International Studies where he offers courses in computer-assisted translation and terminology management.
He is married to Christine Muegge, a midwifery educator and published author, with whom he has three daughters.
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Contributions
Muegge has developed a number of processes and tools for improving the productivity and quality of various steps in the writing-to-translation workflow:
Terminology work
Uwe Muegge has developed a number of automatic terminology extraction solutions. One of these solutions was evaluated by the Swiss Federal Chancellery, which determined the results of Muegge's extraction process to be superior to those produced by the market leader Trados. He also developed a process for automatically creating machine-readable dictionaries from printed dictionaries.
Controlled language
Muegge has developed the CLOUT rule set (Controlled Language Optimized for Uniform Translation), a controlled language that he designed for writing documents that are suitable for translation with machine translation systems. A subset of the CLOUT rules is published on this website.
Machine translation

Muegge designed a process for integrating any machine translation tool into TMX-compliant translation memory tools. He also developed a solution for automatically translating descriptions in product databases.
Web design and Internationalization
Muegge's website is a model solution for an internationalization approach that uses machine translation to automatically create virtual versions of a website in another language. The text in this website was created using his CLOUT rule set, which, combined with Google’s language tools, produce machine-generated translations that are largely comprehensible, if not completely well-formed.
Translation
Muegge is the author of a model solution for specifying translation work orders and is a member of the German Association of Technical Communicators (tekom) Translation SIG that developed the translation quality assurance tool QualiAssistent.
Selected publications
Books and articles
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Other achievements
Photography
Muegge has received a formal education in photography, and the United States Information Agency sponsored several individual exhibitions of his “Keepers of the Light” project in Germany. His infrared photography project “Adrift in the Southwest” was sponsored and produced by Philip Morris International.
Endurance sports
Muegge crossed the Alps on foot following the 425 mile (685 km) GR 5 route that originates near Lake Geneva and ends at the city of Nice on the Mediterranean Sea. He also walked the 268 mile (429 km) Pennine Way stretching from the Derbyshire Peak District to the border of Scotland in the UK, participated in the Inferno Race (the world's oldest and one of the longest downhill ski races) in Switzerland, completed several Olympic-distance triathlons, and his marathon best is 3:34 h.
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