Translating and the Computer 7
A Profession on the Move
Edited by
Catriona Picken
Proceedings
of a conference…
13-14
November 1986
CBI
Conference Centre, Centre Point,
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Papers reproduced by permission of Aslib
Contents
Introduction vii
Catriona Picken
Session 1: The profession
The translation profession in the United Kingdom in 1986: new developments 3
Catriona Picken
Continuing training for the language professions: a survey of needs 8
Anthony F. Hartley
Four eyes are better than two 14
P. J. Arthern
Session 1: Summary of the discussion 27
Session 2: Techniques
Recent developments in IT Standards of interest to translators 31
Peter Fenwick
Principles of information retrieval for personal information systems 40
Paul F. Burton
Terminology in the European Communities 53
P. J. Arthern
Session 2: Summary of the discussion 61
Session 3: Systems
The integration of machine aids into the translation process: an introduction 65
Professor Juan Sager
Machine translation in a large organisation 67
Jean Datta
Translation practice in Europe 74
David Smith
Research on machine translation at the University of Saarbrücken 83
Karl-Heinz Freigang
Translating administrative terminology using an Olivetti M24 95
Patrick N. Chaffey
Session 3: Summary of the discussion 105
Session
4: Machine translation
Loll Rolling
Current machine translation systems developed with GETA's methodology and software tools 114
Professor Christian Boitet
Post-editing on-screen: machine translation from Spanish into English 133
Dr Muriel Vasconcellos
Japanese machine translation in Japan and the rest of the world 147
Peter J. Whitelock
Session 4: Summary of the discussion 160