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… read more
A state-of-the-art volume highlighting the links between lexicography, terminology, language for special purposes (LSP) and translation and Machine Translation, that constitute the domain of Language Engineering.Part I: Terminology and Lexicography. Takes us through terminological problems and… read more
We describe and experimentally evaluate an alternative algorithm for aligning and extracting vocabulary from parallel texts using recency vectors and a similarity measure based on Levenshtein distance. The work is largely inspired by Fung and McKeown 's DK-vec, though we use a simpler algorithm.… read more