Computers and translation

A translator’s guide

Edited by Harold Somers

Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003

[Benjamins Translation Library, vol.35]

ISBN: 90 272 1640 1; 1 58811 377 9

[For copyright reasons, the contents of this volume are not available online; contact the publisher]

Table of contents

List of figures ix

List of tables xiii

List of contributors xv

Chapter 1: Introduction – Harold Somers 1

Chapter 2: The translator’s workstation – Harold Somers 13

Chapter 3: Translation memory systems – Harold Somers 31

Chapter 4: Terminology tools for translators – Lynne Bowker 49

Chapter 5: Localisation and translation – Bert Esselink 67

Chapter 6: Translation technologies and minority languages – Harold Somers 87

Chapter 7: Corpora and the translator – Sara Laviosa 105

Chapter 8: Why translation is difficult for computers – Doug Arnold 119

Chapter 9: The relevance of linguistics for machine translation – Paul Bennett 143

Chapter 10: Commercial systems: the state of the art – John Hutchins 161

Chapter 11: Inside commercial machine translation – Scott Bennett and Laurie Gerber 175

Chapter 12: Going live on the internet –Jin Yang and Elke Lange 191

Chapter 13: How to evaluate machine translation – John S. White 211

Chapter 14: Controlled language for authoring and translation – Eric Nyberg, Teruko

Mitamura and Willem-Olaf Huijsen 245

Chapter 15: Sublanguage – Harold Somers 283

Chapter 16: Post-editing – Jeff Allen 297

Chapter 17: Machine translation in the classroom – Harold Somers 319

Index 341