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Translator’s Workbench

Tools and Terminology for Translation and Text Processing

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Marianne Kugler

    1. Philips Kommunikations-Industrie AG, Nümberg, Germany

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  2. Khurshid Ahmad

    1. AI Group, Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

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  3. Gregor Thurmair

    1. Sietec Systemtechnik, München, Germany

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Part of the book series: Research Reports Esprit (ESPRIT, volume 1)

Part of the book sub series: Project 2315. TWB (3138)

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction Multilingual Documentation and Communication

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Gerhard Heyer
      Pages 3-3

    3. Key Players

      • Monika Höge, Andrea Hohmann, Khai Le-Hong
      Pages 4-5

    4. The Cognitive Basis of Translation

      • Kurt Kohn, Michaela Albl
      Pages 6-7

    5. User Participation in Software Development

      • Khurshid Ahmad, Andrea Davies, Heather Fulford, Paul Holmes-Higgin, Margaret Rogers, Monika Höge
      Pages 8-15

    6. TWB in the Documentation Context

      • Gregor Thurmair
      Pages 16-23

    7. Market Trends for Text Processing Tools

      • Gerhard Heyer
      Pages 24-25

  3. Translation Pre-Processes The ’Input’ Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 27-27
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    2. Document access — Networks and Converters

      • Jaime Delgado, Montserrat Meya
      Pages 29-39

    3. General Language Resources: Lexica

      • Gerhard Heyer, Klemens Waldhör
      Pages 40-48

    4. Special Language Resources: Termbank, Cardbox

      • Renate Mayer, Antonius van Hoof
      Pages 49-58

    5. Creating Terminology Resources

      • Khurshid Ahmad, Andrea Davies, Heather Fulford, Paul Holmes-Higgin, Margaret Rogers
      Pages 59-71

  4. Translation Processes Tools and Techniques

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Currently Available Systems: METAL

      • Gregor Thurmair
      Pages 75-82

    3. Translation Memory

      • Antonius van Hoof, Bernhard Keck, Renate Mayer, Marianne Kugler, Cornelia Menzel
      Pages 83-99

    4. Extended Termbank Information

      • Kurt Kohn, Michaela Albl
      Pages 100-106

  5. Translation Post-Processes ‘The Output’ Resources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Proof-Reading Documentation — Introduction

      • Marianne Kugler
      Pages 109-109

    3. Word- and Context-Based Spell Checkers

      • Montserrat Meya
      Pages 110-116
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About this book

The Translator's Workbench Project was a European Community sponsored research and development project which dealt with issues in multi-lingual communication and docu­ mentation. This book presents an integrated toolset as a solution to problems in translation and docu­ mentation. Professional translators and teachers of translation were involved in the proc­ ess of software development, starting with a detailed study of the user requirements and ending with several evaluation-and-improvement cycles of the resulting toolset. English, German, Greek, and Spanish are addressed in the contributions, however, some of the techniques are inherently language-independent and can thus be extended to cover other languages as well. Translation can be viewed broadly as the execution of three cognitive processes, and this book has been structured along these lines: • First, the translation pre-process, understanding the target language text at a lexico­ semantic level on the one hand, and making sense of the source language document on the other hand. The tools for the pre-translation process include access to electronic networks, conversion of documents from one format to another, creation of terminol­ ogy data banks and access to existing data banks, and terminology dictionaries. • Second, the translation process, rendering sentences in the source language into equiva­ lent target sentences. The translation process refers to the potential of conventional machine translation systems, like METAL, and of the statistically oriented translation memory.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Philips Kommunikations-Industrie AG, Nümberg, Germany

    Marianne Kugler

  • AI Group, Department of Mathematical and Computing Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, UK

    Khurshid Ahmad

  • Sietec Systemtechnik, München, Germany

    Gregor Thurmair

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