Machine Translation and Translation Theory

Edited by

Christa Hauenschild Susanne Heizmann

Mouton de Gruyter Berlin • New York 1997

[ISBN: 3-11-015486-2]

[Workshop held by European Association for Machine Translation, September 1994, Hildesheim University]

Contents

Preface v

Acknowledgements xi

Part I: Aspects of human translation of considerable interest for machine translation

Process models in simultaneous interpretation

Barbara Moser-Mercer 3

Using text mappings in teaching consecutive interpreting

Hans G. Hönig 19

The importance of functional markers in (human) translation

Christiane Nord 35

Translating cultural specifics: Macro- and microstructural decisions

Heidrun Gerzymisch-Arbogast 51

Textual garden paths-parametrized obstacles to target language adequate translations

Monika Doherty 69

Part II : Studies of human translation oriented towards machine translation

How does a Verbmobil affect conversation? Discourse analysis and machine-supported translatory interaction

Birgit Apfelbaum-Cecilia Wadensjö 93

Translation problems and translation strategies involved in human and machine translation: Empirical studies

Birte Prahl-Susanne Petzolt 123

Automatic interpreting of dialogue acts

Susanne Jekat 145

Compensation

Louis des Tombe 157

Interlingual strategies in translation

Peter E. Pause 175

Part III: Approaches to machine translation inspired by human translation

The translation objective in automatic dialogue interpreting

Birte Schmitz 193

Perspectives for incremental MT with charts

Jan W.Amtrup 211

Discourse processing for voice-to-voice machine translation

Susann LuperFoy 223

Evaluating translation

Margaret King 251

Subject index 265