TRANSLATION AND COMMUNICATION
Translating and the Computer 6
Edited by
CATRIONA PICKEN
Proceedings of a conference… 20-21 November 1984
The Waldorf Hotel,
[
ISBN 0-85142-192-x
[Papers reproduced with
permission of Aslib]
CONTENTS
Catriona
Picken
Session
1
Chairman:
Geoffrey Kingscott
The professional technical translator: new
approaches to training
Birgit Rommel
The British Term Bank prototype: user needs, modes
of access, and co-operation in development
Lisa
E.Price
Session
2
Chairman:
Geoffrey Kingscott
International telecommunications
D.W.F.Medcraft
Peter Wheeler
Pamela
Mayorcas-Cohen
Parallel
Session I: Handling terminology
Chairman:
Kees van der Horst
Patrick Sutton, Maud
Fortune and John Scott
Parallel
Session II: Translation aids: how modern technology is changing translation
practice for the small translation unit
Chairman:
Lanna Castellano
Brian
McCluskey, Andy Evans and Nélida Depiante
Parallel
Session III: Machine translation
Chairman: Veronica
Lawson
Selecting a machine translation software vendor
Linn Hedwig Downs
John
Hutchins, Monique L’Huillier and Brian McCluskey
Session
4
Chairman: Barbara Wilson
Office automation and the Teleglobe experience
Linda
Crombie-Talhami
Robert
Rooke
Christine Smith
Session 5: Product forum
Chairman: Catriona
Picken
David Beattie and John Stowell
Session 6
Chairman: John Clews
Handling non-Roman character sets with computers
Hugh McGregor Ross
World scripts (background paper)
John Clews
Automatic speech recognition: fact or
fantasy?
Raj Gunawardana
Session 7: Panel discussion
Chairman: Barbara Snell
Pat Pailing and Chris Atkinson