The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology

Author: Minako O'Hagan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315311232
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 644

Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the dynamically evolving relationship between translation and technology. Divided into five parts, with an editor's introduction, this volume presents the perspectives of users of translation technologies, and of researchers concerned with issues arising from the increasing interdependency between translation and technology. The chapters in this Handbook tackle the advent of technologization at both a technical and a philosophical level, based on industry practice and academic research. Containing over 30 authoritative, cutting-edge chapters, this is an essential reference and resource for those studying and researching translation and technology. The volume will also be valuable for translators, computational linguists and developers of translation tools.

Translation and Technology

Author: Chiew Kin Quah
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230287107
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 241

Book Description
Chiew Kin Quah draws on years of academic and professional experience to provide an account of translation technology, its applications and capabilities. Major developments from North America, Europe and Asia are described, including developments in uses and users of the technology.

A Dictionary of Translation Technology

Author: Sin-wai Chan
Publisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789629961480
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 660

Book Description
This dictionary is intended for anyone who is interested in translation and translation technology. Especially, translation as an academic discipline, a language activity, a specialized profession, or a business undertaking. The book covers theory and practice of translation and interpretation in a number of areas. Addressing and explaining important concepts in computer translation, computer-aided translation, and translation tools. Most popular and commercially available translation software are included along with their website addresses for handy reference. This dictionary has 1,377 entries. The entries are alphabetized and defined in a simple and concise manner.

Human Issues in Translation Technology

Author: Dorothy Kenny
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317302508
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 197

Book Description
Provides a new perspective and focus on the human dimension Offers a new critical approach to the subject, drawing on a range of theories from cognitive to social and psychological Provides empirical evidence of what the technologization of the workplace means to translators

The Future of Translation Technology

Author: Chan Sin-wai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131755325X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Technology has revolutionized the field of translation, bringing drastic changes to the way translation is studied and done. To an average user, technology is simply about clicking buttons and storing data. What we need to do is to look beyond a system’s interface to see what is at work and what should be done to make it work more efficiently. This book is both macroscopic and microscopic in approach: macroscopic as it adopts a holistic orientation when outlining the development of translation technology in the last forty years, organizing concepts in a coherent and logical way with a theoretical framework, and predicting what is to come in the years ahead; microscopic as it examines in detail the five stages of technology-oriented translation procedure and the strengths and weaknesses of the free and paid systems available to users. The Future of Translation Technology studies, among other issues: The Development of Translation Technology Major Concepts in Computer-aided Translation Functions in Computer-aided Translation Systems A Theoretical Framework for Computer-Aided Translation Studies The Future of Translation Technology This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of translational studies and computational linguistics, and a guide to system users and professionals.

Translation and Information Technology

Author: Sin-wai Chan
Publisher: Chinese University Press
ISBN: 9789629960773
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Information technology has created new challenges for translation. In this text contributors in computational linguistics, machine translation and translation studies discuss the effect of electronic tools on translation, and the conceptual gaps raised by the interface of human and machine.

Computer-aided Translation Technology

Author: Lynne Bowker
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776605380
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 202

Book Description
Lynne Bowker introduces the world of technology to the world of translation in this unique book, the first of its kind. Bowker reveals the role of technology in translation and how to use this ever-developing tool. Published in English.

A Project-Based Approach to Translation Technology

Author: Rosemary Mitchell-Schuitevoerder
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780367138820
Category : Translating and interpreting
Languages : en
Pages : 200

Book Description
A Project-Based Approach to Translation Technology provides students of translation and trainee translators with a real-time translation experience, with its translation platforms, management systems, and teamwork. This book is divided into seven chapters reflecting the building blocks of a project-based approach to translation technology. The first chapter identifies the core elements of translation environment tools and collaborative work methods, while chapters two and four review the concept of translation memory and terminology databases and their purposes. Chapter three covers machine translation embedded in the technology, and the other chapters discuss human and technological quality assurance, digital ethics and risk management, and web-based translation management systems. Each chapter follows a common format and ends with project-based assignments. These assignments draw and build on real-time contexts, covering the consecutive steps in the workflow of large and multilingual translation projects. Reviewing the many translation technology tools available to assist the translator and other language service providers, this is an indispensable book for advanced students and instructors of translation studies, professional translators and technology tool providers.

Evaluation of Translation Technology

Author: Walter Daelemans
Publisher: ASP / VUBPRESS / UPA
ISBN: 9054876824
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
This collection of scholarly articles asks the question How useful is translation technology? Pointing to the need for a widely used and reliable way to test the efficiency of language translation programs, the presenters show that commercial tools such as translation memories and translation workbenches are popular, and their developers find them useful in terms of productivity, consistency, or quality. However, these claims are rarely proven using objective comparative studies, and this group describes several new statistical approaches to more rigorous evaluation methods. -- Product Description.

Technology as Translation Strategy

Author: Muriel Vasconcellos
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 902723177X
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 259

Book Description
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.