Computers and Translation
A translator's guide
Editor
This volume is about computers and translation. It is not, however, a Computer Science book, nor does it have much to say about Translation Theory. Rather it is a book for translators and other professional linguists (technical writers, bilingual secretaries, language teachers even), which aims at clarifying, explaining and exemplifying the impact that computers have had and are having on their profession. It is about Machine Translation (MT), but it is also about Computer-Aided (or -Assisted) Translation (CAT), computer-based resources for translators, the past, present and future of translation and the computer.
The editor and main contributor, Harold Somers, is Professor of Language Engineering at UMIST (Manchester). With over 25 years’ experience in the field both as a researcher and educator, Somers is editor of one of the field’s premier journals, and has written extensively on the subject, including the field’s most widely quoted textbook on MT, now out of print and somewhat out of date.
The current volume aims to provide an accessible yet not overwhelmingly technical book aimed primarily at translators and other users of CAT software.
The editor and main contributor, Harold Somers, is Professor of Language Engineering at UMIST (Manchester). With over 25 years’ experience in the field both as a researcher and educator, Somers is editor of one of the field’s premier journals, and has written extensively on the subject, including the field’s most widely quoted textbook on MT, now out of print and somewhat out of date.
The current volume aims to provide an accessible yet not overwhelmingly technical book aimed primarily at translators and other users of CAT software.
[Benjamins Translation Library, 35] 2003. xvi, 351 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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List of figures | p. ix
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List of tables | p. xiii
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List of contributors | p. xv
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1. IntroductionHarold Somers | pp. 1–11
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2. The translator’s workstationHarold Somers | pp. 13–30
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3. Translation memory systemsHarold Somers | pp. 31–47
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4. Terminology tools for translatorsLynne Bowker | pp. 49–65
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5. Localisation and translationBert Esselink | pp. 67–86
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6. Translation technologies and minority languagesHarold Somers | pp. 87–103
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7. Corpora and the translatorSara Laviosa | pp. 105–117
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8. Why translation is difficult for computersDoug Arnold | pp. 119–142
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9. The relevance of linguistics for machine translationPaul Bennett | pp. 143–160
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10. Commercial systems: The state of the artW. John Hutchins | pp. 161–174
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11. Inside commercial machine translationWinfield Scott Bennett and Laurie Gerber | pp. 175–190
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12. Going live on the internetJin Yang and Elke Lange | pp. 191–210
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13. How to evaluate machine translationJohn S. White | pp. 211–244
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14. Controlled language for authoring and translationEric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura and Willem-Olaf Huijsen | pp. 245–281
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15. SublanguageHarold Somers | pp. 283–295
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16. Post-editingJeffrey H. Allen | pp. 297–317
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17. Machine translation in the classroomHarold Somers | pp. 319–340
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Index | pp. 341–349
“Computers and Translation does an excellent job at exploring the most important aspects of translation technology without giving too much detail about any one system. It serves as an excellent resource to academics as well as translation and language professionals at large.”
Sabine Lauffer, Geldon College, York University, in Traduction, Terminologie, Rédaction (TTR), Vol. 16:2 (2003)
“The 17 chapters in this book are written by experienced specialists and give an excellent overview of the state of the art. The chapters are consistently edited including cross references and often a further reading section is provided where the interested reader is pointed to the relevant literature in the field.”
Michael Carl, in Machine Translation, January 2004
“[...] the book would make a useful addition to a translator's reference library.”
Heather Fulford, Aberdeen Business School, The Robert Gordon University, in Journal of Specialised Translation, 2007
“This volume offers an exhaustive coverage of the state of the art in computer-assisted in translation in practice and in theoretical terms. Contributions are made by world-famous scholars from both Europe and the USA who are experts in their fields. [...] I personally found the book fascinating and highly informative. It describes the urgent problems of MT as well as the most successful uses of the commercial electronic translation tools and leaves the reader with an improved understanding of the limits and possibilities of translation software.”
Valentin Shevchuk, Moscow State Linguistic University, Moscow, Russia, in Perspectives, Vol. 12:2 (2004)
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