Technology and the translation profession Anthony Pym Technology changes things

Technology and the translation profession

• Anthony Pym

Technology changes things

• Paper

• Electronic memories

• Rates of pay / degrees of professionalization?

• 1 + 1 ≠2 (Biau)

Basic terms

• MT

• Machine translation

• TM

• Translation memories

• H

• You and me

• CAT

• Thing that goes meeow.

MT

• 1940-70s: Rules for decoding.

• 1980s-2000: Transfer architecture

• Babelfish (Altavista)
• EU-Systran

• 1990s: Interlingua architecture

• Caterpillar

• 2000s: Data-driven

• Google Translate

TM

• 1980s-1990s: Memorizing pairs

• 1990s: TM suites

• Worfast
• Trados
• DejaVu

• 2000s: Integration MT/TM

• Wordfast
• Google Translator Toolkit
• Translation “in the cloud”.

Wordfast

DejaVu

Translator Toolkit

Task

• http://translate.google.com/toolkit/

• Create TM

• Select a news website in English

• Select upload

• Select “Sharing” – Select your TM

• Upload

• Select “Show Toolkit”

• Translate

Revising Google Translate

Ignacio García (forthcoming)

• “A t-test on the marks awarded for Tests 1 and 2 by Marker A found that overall, the difference between MT and ST was highly significant. For Marker B, the mean difference between pairs of ST and MT is not significantly different - yet the result from MT is not worse than the result from ST, meaning that the hypothesis is still supported.”

Centre for Next Generation Localisaton

Also try this…

• Wordfast Anywhere

• http://www.freetm.com/

And please download this…

• http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/bbflashbackexpress/download.aspx