TERMINOLOGY AND COMPUTER APPLICATIONS IN TRANSLATION

Catalog description

This course provides students with an introduction to translation technology and software tools used within the translation industry as part of translation workflows. The course surveys the three main forms of translation technology: terminology management systems, translation memories and machine translation. The course first introduces the fundamental principles of terminology management and lays out best practices for creating and maintaining terminological databases (termbases). The course then turns to translation memories, databases created from aligned parallel corpora that allow translators to reuse past translations. Finally, the role of machine translation and AI in human translation workflows is examined, focusing specifically on human-machine interaction in the workflow, including the activity of post-editing. The course concludes with an examination of how translation technology affects translation quality, the management of translation technology for projects and predictions for the future of translation technology within the language industry.