Information Technologies for Translation
Code
722160002
Academic unit
Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas
Department
Línguas, Culturas e Literaturas Modernas
Credits
6
Teacher in charge
David Hardisty
Weekly hours
3 letivas + 1 tutorial
Teaching language
Portuguese
Objectives
1) To acquire professional competence in computer software used in translation, such as spell checking, thesauri and track changes.
2) To be aware of the possibilities and limitations of machine translation.
3)To acquire competence in research techniques for language and cultural resources on the Internet WWW e Google.
4) To learn the fundamental concepts in Computer Assisted Translation (CAT) Tools (SDL Trados e MemoQ), such as Translation Memories, Termbases, Autosuggest Dictionaries and Alignment, concept of segmentation, source, target and bilingual files.
5) To acquire competence in applying these concepts in programs such as Trados and MemoQ.
6)To learn how to use corpora in translation and the use of collocation in CAT Tools.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of information and communication technologies.
Subject matter
1. Use of Software Suites such as Microsoft Office for tools for translation and revision
2. Search facilities in Google and WaC - Web as Corpus
3. Making and use of translation memories, databases and Autosuggest Dictionaries
4. Basic concepts of Computer Assisted Translation Tools (SDL Trados and MemoQ), of segmentation, source, target and bilingual files
5. Basic interoperability of data
6. Use of machine translation
Bibliography
1) (2012) European Commission, Translation Tools and Workflow. Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union.
2) Kay, M. (1980). The Proper Place of Men and Machines in Language Translation. Palo Alto: Xerox Parc Working Paper.
3) Kubler, N. & Aston, G. (2010). Using corpora in translation. A. OKeeffe and M. McCarthy (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. London /New York: Routledge, pp. 501-515.
4) SDL Trados Studio 2014. Getting started for translators (2014). SDL: Maidenhead.
5) Steinberger, Ralf, Bruno Pouliquen, Anna Widiger, Camelia Ignat, Toma Erjavec, Dan Tufis and Dániel Varga (2006). \"The JRC-Acquis: A Multilingual Aligned Parallel Corpus with 20+ Languages\". Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC´2000). Genoa, 24-26, pp. 2142-2147.
Teaching method
The classes take place in a computer room. They include short demonstrations by the teacher to show software functions, or demonstrations where students also carry out the steps being shown. At other times students will practice the sofware with the help of the teacher. Question and answer sessions will then clear up any doubts regarding the software function(s) being considered. Academic articles will be supplied and students will also consult websites.
Evaluation method
Assessment will focus on two main areas: 1) an oral exam at the computer to evaluate the software competence acquired by the students during the course (70%); and 2) the production of a written assignment analysing existing glossary material, in a previously allocated area (30%).