Costas Nadalis

Professional Background

Costas Nadalis has worked in the translation and localisation industry since 1989. For almost twenty years he was with ORCO S.A., one of the first software localisation companies in Greece. He started as project manager for the Greek localisation of IBM software. He then led localisation programmes for major technology companies, including Microsoft, HP and Oracle. He became Head of the Technical Translation and Software Localisation Department and served as Vice President and member of the Board of Directors until 2008.

Since 2008 he has worked as an independent consultant through his company, TMServe. He provides consulting, training and software development to translation companies, language service providers and organisations in Greece and abroad. He began his career in 1987 as an IT specialist and software developer, which gives him a strong technical understanding of how language tools and language data work.

Areas of Expertise

• CAT tools: He has worked with computer-aided translation tools since the early 1990s. He has been a Certified SDL/RWS Trados Trainer since 2002 and a Certified Memsource/Phrase Trainer since 2016.
• Translation memories: He designs, manages and maintains translation memory databases so that previous translations can be reused consistently and efficiently.
• Terminology and glossaries: He builds and manages term bases and glossaries, and sets up terminology checks for quality control.
• Machine translation: He trains machine translation systems and integrates them into professional translation workflows.
• Localisation processes: He sets up and optimises projects, handles file formats and workflows, runs quality assurance and selects the right tools for each project.
• Language data and AI: His recent work is on language data structures and on using Large Language Models for translation, text understanding and knowledge acquisition.

Teaching

Costas has taught CAT tools, translation and localisation project management, and machine translation at the Hellenic American University (Master in Translation programme), the meta|φραση school of translation studies, Dimetra Academy and ORCO S.A. He also speaks at professional and academic events on translation technology, including the Greek Society for Translation Studies.

Role in PaliVerse

Costas leads the technical processing of the Pāli texts. He extracts and segments the texts with CAT tools and structures them in XML. This allows them to be presented on the website and lets the Tipiṭaka, Aṭṭhakathā and Ṭīkā be linked to each other. He also manages the glossary and translation memory data, so that language, terminology and repeated phrases stay consistent across the whole project.

Education

McGill University, Canada: Archaeology and Computer Science
Studies in the UK: Mathematics and Physics