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Technology as Translation Strategy
The papers in this volume tell the story of a profession that is responding in a number of different ways to the advances in computer technology – of professionals who are streamlining their work, reducing repetitive tasks, eliminating manual operations, and in general increasing their productivity while at the same time achieving a more interesting and relaxed environment.
[American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, II] 1988. viii, 248 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 14 March 2011
Published online on 14 March 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Editor’s notes
- Section I: the translator and … word processing
- Word processing and the independent translator: A revolution in working proceduresSteven Sachs | p. 9
- Translator strategies for getting the most out of word processingGeoffrey Kingscott | p. 14
- System networking for translatorsWilliam J. Grimes | p. 19
- Nuts and bolts for translators: how do I get ã on this #$&*@* computer?Kim L. Smith | p. 25
- The ideal workstation? Perspective of the independent translatorWilliam M. Park | p. 29
- The ideal workstation? Perspective of the In-house translatorJean A. Vaumoron | p. 36
- Introducing future translators to word processingDavid Bowen and Margareta Bowen | p. 42
- Section II: The translator and … the lexical data baseAlan K. Melby
- Introduction to lexical data bases
- Termium: The structure of its linguistic dataChristine Leonhardt | p. 54
- Automation of terminology in the international organizations
- United nationsNigel Cassar | p. 64
- World BankJohn Alvey | p. 68
- International Monetary FundPatrice Guilmard | p. 73
- BTUSB: a terminology data bank for VenezuelaDolores Raventós de Castro | p. 76
- Strategies for the sharing of lexical data basesAlan K. Melby | p. 79
- Automated lookup: Autoterm of ALP systemsRobert L. Good | p. 87
- Mercury: A tool for the management of specialized terminologyLeland D. Wright | p. 92
- The ideal lexical database systems: A checklist of desirable featuresAlan K. Melby | p. 97
- Section III: the translator … machine translation
- A translator’s map of machine translationVeronica Lawson | p. 105
- Two Aspects of interactive machine translationAlan Weaver | p. 116
- Getting smart in many languages: MT with an option of processingJohn M. Smart | p. 124
- The role of the translator in making an MT system Work: Perspective of a DeveloperJoann P. Ryan | p. 127
- Making an MT system work: perspective of a translatorSusana Santangelo | p. 133
- The translator and the postediting experienceTerrence McElhaney and Muriel Vasconcellos | p. 140
- The translator and the dictionary experiencePeter J. Wheeler | p. 149
- MT in large organizations: Systran at the commission of the European CommunitiesIan M. Pigott | p. 159
- MT in large organizations: revolution in the workplaceJean Datta | p. 167
- MT in a service service bureau: its uses and limitationsDawn Eng | p. 174
- Information-only machine translation: A feasibilty studyPatricia E. Newman | p. 178
- MT and the independent translatorLeonard A. Shaeffer | p. 190
- Factors in the evaluation of MT: A pragmatic approachFred Klein | p. 198
- Factors in the evaluation of MT: formal vs functional approachesMuriel Vasconcellos | p. 203
- Roundup
- Deciding on the level of computer participation in translationJill E. Peterson-Boogaard | p. 217
- Future perspectives in Translation technologiesW. John Hutchins | p. 223
- Contributors
- Call for proposal: translator and interpreter training and foreign language pedagogy
- Corporate members
- Institutional members
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