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TRAN812: Computing in Translation
Year and Semester |
2007/1 |
Convenor(s) |
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Quicklinks |
Lecturers
Dr Canzhong Wu
Email: canzhong.wu@ling.mq.edu.au
Phone: 9850 8764
Office: C3B 316
Prof Christian Matthiessen
Email: cmatthie@ling.mq.edu.au
Phone: 9850 7756
Office: C3B 315
Please make appointments by email.
Aims
- to explore the relationship between language and computers
- to explore the use of computers in the process of translation
- to demonstrate the uses of data from computer corpora and the Internet, in solving translation problems in English and other languages
- to show how computational tools can help increase translation efficiency and productivity
Outline
Week |
Date |
Topic |
Assignment |
1 |
28/2 |
Introduction: computers and translation |
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2 |
7/3 |
Internet resources and translation |
|
3 |
14/3 |
Document processing and translation (1) |
|
4 |
21/3 |
Document processing and translation (2) |
#1 Due |
5 |
28/3 |
Terminology tools for translators |
|
6 |
4/4 |
Working with TRADOS MultiTerm |
#2 Due |
RECESS |
|||
7 |
25/4 |
Using TRADOS MultiTerm in MS Word |
ANZAC |
8 |
2/5 |
Translation memory and translation |
#3 Due |
9 |
9/5 |
Working with TRADOS Translator’s Workbench |
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10 |
16/5 |
Translation memory and text alignment |
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11 |
23/5 |
Machine translation (MT) and MT evaluation |
#4 Due |
12 |
30/5 |
Towards an integrated environment of translation |
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13 |
6/6 |
Summary and review |
|
14 |
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#5 Due |
Assessment
This unit will be assessed by means of four mini-assignments (60%) and a final essay (40%).
Class attendance and participation: Punctuality and attendance at class meetings are expected. In case of illness, students should explain their absence directly to the lecturers, and marks will be deducted for those who fail to do so. Students who miss four or more classes without will automatically fail the course.
Assignment #1: Internet resources and translation (20%) due Friday 23 March (Week 4)
Assignment #2: Document processing (10%) due Friday 6 April (Week 6)
Assignment #3: Terminology base (15%) due Friday 4 May (Week 8)
Assignment #4: Translation memory and text alignment (15%) due Friday 25 May (Week 11)
Assignment #5: An essay of 2,500 words (40%) due Friday 15 June (Week 14)
All assignments will be marked according to the following standard grading system:
High Distinction (HD) 85-100; Distinction (D) 75-84; Credit (C) 65-74; Pass (P) 50-64; Pass Conceded (PC) 45-49; Fail (F) 0-44.
Make sure you have read the policy on plagiarism, and include the cover sheet where you certify that the assignment is your own work. You may form study groups and consult one another when you do assignments, but each assignment you submit must represent your own work. You will find information about the Macquarie university plagiarism policy at the following web sites:
http://www.student.mq.edu.au/plagarism/
http://www/handbook.mq.edu.au/PDFs/2007/ug-plagarism.pdf
Important Semester Dates
Start |
End |
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Classes |
26 February |
5 April |
Mid-semester break |
9 April |
20 April |
Classes |
23 April |
4 June |
Examinations |
13 June |
29 June |
Resources
Primary tools
- TRADOS 7 Freelance; TRADOS MultiTerm 7 Desktop
- Microsoft Office XP;
- FireFox or Internet Explorer
Basic texts
- Cole, Ronald A., et al. (eds.). 1995. Survey of the state of the art in human language technology. Available at: http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/.
- Sommers, H. (ed.) 2003. Computers and translation: a translatorճ guide. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins.
Further readings
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Steiner, E. & C. Yallop. (eds.) 2001. Exploring translation and multilingual text production: beyond content. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter. 41-124.
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Bowker, L. 2002. Computer-aided translation technology: a practical introduction. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
- Hartley, A. & C. Paris. 1996. Automatic text generation for software development and use. In Harold Sommers (ed.) Terminology, LSP and Translation: studies in language engineering in honour of Juan C. Sager. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 221-242.
- Lewis, D. 1992. Computers and translation. In C. S. Butler (ed.), Computers and written text. London: Blackwell. 75-115.
- Sager, J. 1994. Language engineering and translation: consequences of automation. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Trujillo, A. 1999. Translation engines: techniques for machine translation. London: Springer.
Readings
- Bowker, Lynne. 2003. Terminology tools for translators. In Harold Somers (ed.) Computers and translation: a translator's guide. Amsterdam: Benjamins.
- Hutchins, John. 1993. Latest developments in machine translation technology: beginning a new era in MT research. The Fourth Machine Translation Summit: MT Summit IV. Proceedings: International cooperation for global communication, July 20-22, 1993, Kobe, Japan. [Tokyo: AAMT, 1993], p.11-34. PDF version
- Izwaini, Sattar. 2003. Building specialized corpora for translation studies. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Multilingual Corpora: Linguistic Requirements and Technical Perspectives, 27 March 2003, University of Lancaster. pp 17-25.
- Scott, Bass. 1999. Machine vs. Human Translation. Advanced Language Translation, Inc. Retrieved 30 October 2006 from http://www.advancedlanguage.com/articles/machine_vs_human_translation.pdf.
Tools
- MyTermBase: a terminology tool that manages technical terms in English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Thai. Please download the Windows XP version (23MB)or the Mac OS X version (38MB). To run the program on Windows XP, double click MyTermBase.exe, and to run the program on Mac OS X, double click MyTermBase.app.
Useful URLs
- Google: http://www.google.com.au/
- Localization Industry Standard Association: http://www.lisa.org/
- TRADOS: http://www.trados.com/
- SDL International: http://www.sdl.com/
- SYSTRAN: http://www.systransoft.com/index.html
- MT in IBM: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/aw.nsf/html/mt
- Translation Wizard: http://www.faganfinder.com/translate/
- Dicitonary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/
- HyperDictionary: http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/
- NSW Government: http://www.nsw.gov.au/
- WordNet: http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/w3wn.html
- Translation in Context: http://www.hfac.uh.edu/mcl/faculty/armstrong/default.html
- The United Nations: http://www.un.org/