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Navigating in a New Era:
Posted by genta on Wednesday, July 23 @ 07:01:21 EDT (87 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
| The ways in which translators work, particularly industrial translators
(the term traditionally used for translators of commercial, legal,
medical, scientific, technical, and general non-literary materials),
have been undergoing dramatic change since the advent of the computer,
the Internet, globalization, the growing use of machine translation and
CAT tool programs, and, in the case of into-English translators, the
growing use of English as the lingua franca of international business,
law, technology, and the sciences. The pace of this change is
accelerating at such a rate that it is difficult to predict how we
shall be doing our work and what the translation profession will look
like five years from now.
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To Upgrade or Not to Upgrade
Posted by genta on Tuesday, April 08 @ 03:53:40 EDT (126 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
| With SDL's announcement not to honor promotion-priced upgrades for versions of Trados 6.5 and earlier come April 2008, many Trados
users see themselves faced with tough decisions in these last days of
March. Should you pay for an upgrade simply to avoid falling out of the
upgrade cycle, or should you start to consider one of the competing
products?
There's no better time than now to take a look at the competing TEnT
(Translation Environment Tool) products and ask two questions: 1. How
do they measure up? 2. Perhaps just as important, how compatible are
they with Trados input and output formats that we receive from
clients? To answer the first question, a partner and I have recently
created a website at www.translatorstraining.com
where we compare all the available tools in the form of short video
tutorials. This article attempts to answer the second question.
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Ethical Implications of Translation Technologies
Posted by Genta on Monday, February 04 @ 09:16:16 EST (230 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
| Introduction Technology has been reshaping the concept and practice of translation in many aspects. Until some time ago, translators were expected to be able to work solely on definite source texts with the exclusive aid of dictionaries. Specialists were called upon where research references failed or left holes, but, even in such cases, translators had the chance to develop familiarity with their source texts, becoming, in many cases, experts themselves in some fields. Textual material to be translated was basically conceptualized as having a beginning and an end, thus making contextualization of meaning easier.
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Translators’ Best Web Sites
Posted by Genta on Monday, February 04 @ 08:24:30 EST (167 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
| About Google's Page Ranking (PR) Index: Google ranks all web pages on a scale from 0 to 10 according to the number of links that lead to that page and the importance of the referring pages. A low PR number does not reflect the quality of the page, but may tell the owner that it needs more marketing effort to make the page more "popular." You can check the PR of your, or any other, web page at http://www.prchecker.info/check_page_rank.php, for example. For an explanation of Google's PageRank technology, see http://www.google.com/technology/.
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Translators’ Emporium
Posted by Genta on Monday, February 04 @ 08:23:01 EST (170 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
| Tool Kit
Biweekly newsletter by Jost Zetzsche with useful information for using computer resources from Windows to computer-assisted translation. For a free subscription go to www.internationalwriters.com/toolkit. For some samples of past issues of the newsletter, go to www.internationalwriters.com/toolkit/ToolKitSample.html.
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Technology and the Fine Arts
Posted by Genta on Monday, February 04 @ 08:07:23 EST (148 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
| For those of us who are translators, technology has increasingly become a necessity. Years ago we grudgingly agreed to use word processors, and now we even own TEnTs (translation environment tools). But deep in our hearts we often long for the days that are so well depicted in this image of St. Jerome, the patron saint of translators and, judging by his innumerable appearances on translators' websites, the most revered of our role models.
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Translators’ Emporium
Posted by Genta on Saturday, December 08 @ 04:56:35 EST (180 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
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Tool KitBiweekly newsletter by Jost Zetzsche with useful information for using computer resources from Windows to computer-assisted translation. For a free subscription go to www.internationalwriters.com/toolkit. For some samples of past issues of the newsletter, go to www.internationalwriters.com/toolkit/ToolKitSample.html.
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Creating the Ideal Word Processing Environment
Posted by Genta on Saturday, December 08 @ 04:40:29 EST (182 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
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One of the areas at the heart of how successful a Translation Environment Tool (TEnT) is for the translator, editor, and proofreader is the quality of its word processing environment.
Wordfast is the only tool left on the market that offers Word as its only word processing environment. |
Early on, many TEnT makers chose the "easy way out" by using Word or WordPerfect as their main word processing environment. This seemed to have a number of advantages. Not only did this provide access to the advanced word processing facilities that came with Word and WordPerfect, but it also didn't hurt their marketing message: "If you know how to use Word, you know how to use our tool." This message really was a fallacy that badly back-fired when users became upset that these tools were indeed quite complex and challenging. Though it was nice to operate in a familiar environment while writing or editing, the setup and maintenance of databases and the use of all the many intricate features that most tools offer really had very little to do with MS Word.
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The Interpretive Model and Machine Translation
Posted by Genta on Thursday, October 18 @ 05:31:58 EDT (157 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
| For a long time, translation formed part of linguistic studies (see G. MOUNIN’s works). However, during the last few decades, it has been institutionally associated with “Language Sciences”, which represent a vast and very dynamic field in which interdisciplinarity plays a key role. This association has led to the burgeoning of a translation science (traductology or translation studies) within the field of Language Sciences which does not deal specifically with “translation” but with “translation operations and process”, thus reflecting the change in perspective adopted to approach the study object.
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Using Trados's WinAlign Tool to Teach the Translation Equivalence Concept
Posted by Genta on Monday, October 15 @ 08:38:18 EDT (167 reads)
Topic Translation Technology
| Abstract This article reports on the pedagogical effectiveness of using a translation memory tool, e.g., Trados's WinAlign, to assist in the teaching of the translation equivalence (TE) concept. Conventionally, translation instructors taught the TE concept using the prescriptive method of lecture and discussion of relevant TE theories. As an alternative, this study proposes the use of the descriptive method to teach the TE concept. The author administered an experimental technology-assisted translation project by engaging a group of graduate students in the editing of Trados's WinAlign-produced translation alignments. The editing process allowed students to identify various TE modes, such as strong TE, fair TE, weak TE and very weak TE. At the end of the translation project, students filled out a questionnaire. Although using the Trados WinAlign tool as an aid has demonstrated the pedagogical effectiveness to facilitate student acquisition of the TE concept, we still need to test the results of our research on different groups of students to more convincingly verify its benefits.
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