Table of Contents
1. Translation in the information age
The need for electronic tools
Typologies of translation tools
The process-oriented approach
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
2. Translator–client communication and information transfer
The use of e-mail, FTP and WWW-based working groups
Transfer options
Optimizing online file transfer
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
3.Translation and the Internet
The basics of the Internet
Internet services
The worldwide web
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
4. Searching the web
Web search strategies 1 – institutional search via URLs
Web search strategies 2 – thematic search via subject trees
Web search strategies 3 – word search via search engines
Evaluating web documents
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
5. Translation resources on the worldwide web
Accessing national libraries online
Browsing in virtual bookstores
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Multilingual terminology databases
Newspaper and magazine archives
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
6. The world on a disk – Translation resources on CD-ROM
The advantages of CD-ROMs
Translation resources available on CD-ROM
Strategies for accessing information on CD-ROM
Reference works: Two case studies
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
7. Computer-assisted terminology management
Forms of terminology management – from file cards to hypermedia systems
Managing terminological data using terminology management systems
Managing terminological data with MultiTerm
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
8. Corpora as translation tools
A typology of corpora
Building and analysing customized corpora
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
9. Déjà Vu?- Translation memories and localization tools
Translation memory systems
Working with a translation memory tool: Trados' Translator's Workbench
Software localization tools
A localization case study – Corel Catalyst
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
10. A translator's sword of Damocles? An introduction to machine translation
Popular conceptions about machine translation
Machine translation and the roller coaster of history
Machine translation – definitions, architectures and quality demands
MT architectures
Strategies for optimizing the quality of MT output
The practical use of MT technology – high-end versus low-end systems
Notorious problems in MT
MT on the Internet
Tasks
Further reading and Internet links
Glossary
References
Index
