TOOLS for the TRADE

Translating and the Computer 5

Edited by

Veronica Lawson

Proceedings of a conference… 10-11 November 1983

The London Press Centre

 

[London]: Aslib, 1985

ISBN 0-85142-180-5

[Papers reproduced with permission of Aslib]

 

CONTENTS

Introduction                                                                                 

Veronica Lawson

DAY 1: MORE MACHINE AIDS FOR TRANSLATORS

Session 1: The aids

Chairman's introduction

Barbara Snell

The tools for the job: an overview

Julie Harriett

Some IBM equipment for the translator's office

Horace Mitchell

Development of computers and communications: the role of the National Physical Laboratory         

Dr Wyn L Price

Session 1: Summary of discussion                                             

John Gardam

Session 2: Using the aids

Chairman: Geoffrey Kingscott

The benefits from handling translations electronically

Peter Barber

Word processors three years on                                                  

Robert Clark

A glossary on your word processor                                              

Geoffrey Samuelsson-Brown

Doing It the other way                                                                 

John Hayes

Session 2: Summary of discussion                                               

Aletta Stevens and Barbara Wilson

 

DAY 2: MORE PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE OF MACHINE
TRANSLATION

Session 3: More practical translation systems

Chairman's remarks: Naming machine translation                  

Professor J.C. Sager

Recent developments in practical machine translation            

Ian M. Pigott

Machine translation, machine-aided translation, and machine-impeded translation

Merle D. Tenney

Management of the machine translation environment: interaction of functions at the Pan American Health Organization                                                                             

Muriel Vasconcellos

Logos: the intelligent translation system                                  

Ralph E. Hawes

Session 3: Summary of discussion                                         

Peter Barber

Session 4: Meeting the MT user's needs

Chairman: Christopher Leamy

A Commission of the European Communities user looks at machine translation    

Dr P.A. Walker

WCC's translation service bureau                                           

Henrietta B. Pons

Operational experience of a machine translation service       

Ulla Magnusson-Murray

Session 4: Summary of discussion                                         

W.J. Hutchins

Session 5: More varieties of editing

Chairman: Veronica Lawson

New developments in TITUS 4                                                      

A.A. Streiff

 

Introduction to interactive translation  

Russell Bateman

 

Rapid post-editing of Systran                                                     

Elizabeth Wagner

Looking back at a year of German-English MT with Logos     

Klaus E. Tschira

 

Session 5: Summary of discussion                                             

Lanna Castellano, W.J. Hutchins and Geoffrey Kingscott

 

Biographical notes                                                                      

List of participants                                                                      

 

Papers presented at the Conference but not included in the proceedings:

A Wang view of the translator's office

Chris Wheeler

 

Translation aids from International Computers Limited
Graham Hook

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Text transmission

Malcolm Jones