Translating and the Computer 9
Potential and Practice
Edited by
Catriona Picken
Proceedings of
a conference…
12-13 November
1987
CBI Conference
Centre, Centre Point,
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Papers reproduced by permission of Aslib
Contents
Introduction vii
Catriona Picken
Session 1: Sharing
experience
The three faces of Joyce: word processors and other
hardware allegedly of use
John Hayes
Cay-Holger Stoll
Publish and be damned! Principle and practice of desktop publishing 27
Rainer Reisenberger
New ways to communicate: services provided by British Telecom 56
Malcolm Jones
Session 1: Summary of the discussion 68
Session 2: Systems
Machine translation: a threat or a promise? 71
Magnar Brekke and Roald Skarsten
Are you being served? User friendliness of CAT systems 80
Ulla Magnusson Murray
The New Oxford English Dictionary Project 91
Timothy Benbow
Session 2: Summary of the discussion 104
Session 3: Termbanks
Introduction: New tasks for terminology 109
Professor Juan Sager
A survey of termbanks worldwide 112
John McNaught
The Termium termbank: today and tomorrow 130
Alain Landry
Classification systems for terminological databanks 145
Wolfgang Nedobity
Erika Hoffmann
Session 3: Summary of the discussion 161
Session 4: International cooperation
Pan-Arab and international cooperation in technical terminology 167
Dr Mahmoud Esmail Sieny
The Conference of Translation Services of West European States 180
Jean-Marie Timmermans
Eurotra: past, present and future 186
Peter Lau
Session 4: Summary of the discussion 192
Biographical notes on speakers and chairs 195