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On-line Resources

for Translation

Belinda Maia

Universidade do [email protected]


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The Information Revolution

and the Translator

Many professionsh

ave been affected by th

eInformation Revolution

BUT few more than that of the Translator or Language Services Provider


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Before th

e Personal Computer Translators handwrote or typed Reference material dictionaries and

general reference Job structure often allowed them to

specialise on the job

Literary texts and books often done as apart-time occupation often for a variety ofnon-professional reasons


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Since th

e Personal Computer Word-processing the norm and desktop

publishing standards increasingly required

Reference material paper and on-line has boomed

In-house jobs rare translators work in

groups or freelance and accept anyth

ing Literary texts about 5% of translationdone


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Before th

e Internet The context was LOCAL

Market restricted

Client and Translator direct contact

Reference material in local libraries,bookshops, clients office

Social and psychological attitudes restricted


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Since th

e Internet The context is increasingly GLOBAL

Market is global

Client and translator contacts more diverse andrarely direct

Information retrieval is becoming increasingly

sophisticated and international Social and psychological attitudes - changing


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On-line Resources The Internet!

A wide variety of information and accessto knowledge

Specific information for language servicesprovidersTranslators pages e.g. The Translators home

companion http://www.lai.com/companion.html


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Dictionaries and glossaries -

good Published dictionaries, thesauri etc in digital form a wide

variety Official glossaries properly validated Occasional gems USEFUL LINKS http://www.yourdictionary.com/ http://www.word2word.com/dictionary.html

http://www.wordsmith.org/ http://www.wordsmyth.net/ http://www.bartleby.com/62/


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T

erminologyD

atabases EURODICAUTOM -http://europa.eu.int/eurodicautom/login.jsp

CELEX -

http://europa.eu.int/celex/

TERMITE -http://www.itu.int/search/wais/Termite/

Try Terminology Database on Google!


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Official glossaries e.g.s GLOSSARY - Institutions, policies and

enlargement of the European Union

http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/leg/en/cig/g4000.htm Euro terminology

http://europa.eu.int/comm/translation/euro/euenfra

m.h

tm JUDIThttp://curia.eu.int/en/txts/others/judit.htm


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D

ictionaries and glossaries - bad Plenty of amateur efforts with little or no

official validation

Little discrimination even on gooddictionary sites

FOR EXAMPLE:


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From: Translation

(yourdictionary.com) Our professional Instajob

translation in 24 hours! Now

your Dictionary can handleANY translation job, large orsmall.


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Mach

ineT

ranslation On-line translation at:

http://www.systransoft.com/

http://world.altavista.com/ http://www.freetranslation.com/

http://translator.dictionary.com/text.html

http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en ETC


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Mach

ine AssistedT

ranslation TRADOS http://www.trados.com/

ST

AR http://www.star-group.net/eng/software/sprachtech.html Dj Vu http://www.atril.com SDLX http://www.sdlintl.com/products/sdlx.htm IBM Translation Manager http://www-3.ibm.com/software/ad/translat/tm/


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Principal features of MAT

Translation memories

Terminology databases

Aligning tools

Software works in coordination with wordprocessor


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Localisation Specific software for performing translation

or LOCALISATION of software textual

material Examples of software: Corel Catalyst

http://www.alchemysoftware.ie/ Passolo http://www.passolo.com/index.htm


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Corpora General information http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/ ICAME http://www.hit.uib.no/english/ UCREL http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/computing/research/ucrel/ Extracts from McEnery and Wilsons book on Corpus

Linguistics http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/staff/andrew/data.htm Mike Barlow http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html


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Corpora on-line/CD

-ROM ENGLISH BNC British National Corpus http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/

http://sara.natcorp.ox.ac.uk/lookup.html COBUILD and Bank of English http://titania.cobuild.collins.co.uk/ PORTUGUESE CETEMPBLICO http://cgi.portugues.mct.pt/cetempublico/whatisCETEMP.html

ENGLISH/PORTUGUESE COMPARA

http://cgi.portugues.mct.pt/cetempublico/whatisCETEMP.html


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Corpora German

fromhttp://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/corpus.html#Corpora

Mannheimer Corpora A very large, growing,

online German corpus arch

ive (778 million wordsin August 2000). A copyright-free portion of thearchive (379 million words in August 2000) isfreely searchable. Invited guests have access to thewhole archive. Partially tagged.

Project Gutenberg (German texts) German newspapers -- tagged corpus withsyntactic structure annotated.


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Corpora analysis tools Concordancers, wordlists+statistics, aligners, taggers,

parsers...... SARA - see British National Corpus WOR DSMITH http://www1.oup.co.uk/elt/catalogue/Multimedia/WordSmi

thTools3.0/download.html PARACONC

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~barlow/parac.html MULTICONC http://www.lang.ltsn.ac.uk/cit/reviews/multiconc.htm


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T

ext databases on-line Most EC legislation

http://europe.osha.eu.int/legislation/index2.stm

EUR-Lex http://europa.eu.int/eur-

lex/en/news/20010601_01.html

Other official sites Well-translated websites

...... Badly-translated websites


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T

exts on-line MOST NEWSPAPERS University of Virginia

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/electronic.html CETH http://www.ceth.rutgers.edu/ Gutenberg project

http://promo.net/pg/ Oxford Text Archive http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/


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Making your own corpora General corpora

Specialised corpora

Translation memories

Parallel/aligned corpora Comparable corpora


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Making your own databases Microsoft Excel and Access

MULTITERM (TRADOS)

DIY databases But make sure you find out about the latest

ISO standards or consult

http://www.lisa.org/term/ for information


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Conclusion

The language services provider isdeveloping from the needs of the marketand also from the possibilities offered

by the Internet


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References USEFUL TEXTBOOK Austermhl, Frank. 2001.ElectronicTools for Translators.

Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing Co. OFFICIAL REPORTS LETRAC: Language Engineering forTranslation

Curricula:http://www.iai.uni-sb.de/LETRAC/home.html

POINTER REPORT: Proposals for an operationalinfrastructure for terminology in Europe

http://www.computing.surrey.ac.uk/ai/pointer/report/

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