A retrospective view on the promise on machine translation for Bahasa Melayu-English

Research and development activities for machine translation systems from English language to others are more progressive than vice versa. It has been more than 30 years since the machine translation was introduced and yet a Malay language or Bahasa Melayu (BM) to English machine translation engine is not available. Consequently, many translation systems have been developed for the world's top 10 languages in terms of native speakers, but none for BM, although the language is used by more than 200 million speakers around the world. This paper attempts to seek possible reasons as why such situation occurs. A summative overview to show progress, challenges as well as future works on MT is presented. Issues faced by researchers and system developers in modeling and developing a machine translation engine are also discussed. The study of the previous translation systems (from other languages to English) reveals that the accuracy level can be achieved up to 85 %. The figure suggests that the translation system is not reliable if it is to be utilized in a serious translation activity. The most prominent difficulties are the complexity of grammar rules and ambiguity problems of the source language. Thus, we hypothesize that the inclusion of ‘semantic’ property in the translation rules may produce a better quality BM-English MT engine

Criterios para la integración de bancos de datos terminológicos en el entorno del traductor profesional

Translation-oriented terminology management is not only limited to the study of terminology problems with regards to specialization, currency, and reliability. The integration of terminology data bases within CAT tools facilitating their use, maintenance and retrieval towards the automation of the translation process and consistency of terminology has also attracted attention from the academia and the language industry alike. However, this approach to terminology management seems to be carried out from a mostly theoretical perspective. Thus, the aim of this paper is to present the results of a survey conducted among professional translators in Spain regarding their actual experience with terminology in order to identify potential gaps between the technological offer and the specific needs of translators.La gestión de terminología para la traducción no se limita al estudio de problemas terminológicos de especialización, vigencia y fiabilidad: también la integración de bases de datos terminológicas en herramientas de traducción asistida que facilita su uso, mantenimiento y recuperación, y contribuye a la automatización del proceso de traducción y a la consistencia terminológica ha sido objeto de investigación académica y desde la industria. Sin embargo, este enfoque parece llevarse a cabo desde una perspectiva teórica en su mayoría. Por lo tanto, el objetivo de este trabajo es presentar los resultados de una encuesta realizada a traductores profesionales en España sobre su experiencia real con terminología para identificar posibles brechas entre la oferta tecnológica y las necesidades específicas de los traductores

Textpatterns in a computer assisted translator's workstation

A software package for a computer-assisted translator's workstation should contain a special module which consists of a database of preferred textual structures in the source and target languages, (TEXTPAT I), as well as a processor of typical translation cases (TEXTPAT II). TEXTPAT I includes micro- and macrostructures at four levels (text type, text type variants, chunks, syntactic and lexical structures). TEXTPAT II consists of lists of items for which translation rules have to be applied. Both textpats contribute to the idea of a translator's expert system

Criteria for the Integration of Term Banks in the Professional Translation Environment

[EN] Translation-oriented terminology management is not only limited to the study of terminology problems with regards to specialization, currency, and reliability. The integration of terminology data bases within CAT tools facilitating their use, maintenance and retrieval towards the automation of the translation process and consistency of terminology has also attracted attention from the academia and the language industry alike. However, this approach to terminology management seems to be carried out from a mostly theoretical perspective. Thus, the aim of this paper is to present the results of a survey conducted among professional translators in Spain regarding their actual experience with terminology in order to identify potential gaps between the technological offer and the specific needs of translators.Candel-Mora, MÁ. (2017). Criteria for the Integration of Term Banks in the Professional Translation Environment. Sendebar. 28:243-260. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/111703S2432602

Desarrollo de nuevos perfiles de traducción en un programa de pregrado

RESUMEN: En este artículo, se discuten los nuevos perfiles de traducción con base en el desarrollo de dos competencias en un programa de pregrado: la competencia extralingüística, y la competencia instrumental y profesional, es decir, el conocimiento especializado, y el conocimiento y el uso de las nuevas tecnologías y el conocimiento del mercado. El artículo se centra en la importancia de desarrollar estas dos subcompetencias en la enseñanza de la traducción para que un traductor profesional sea competitivo, y propone una serie de actividades recomendadas para cada competencia. Asimismo, se discuten las ventajas y desventajas de estas actividades así como los cambios y las implicaciones en la enseñanza de la traducción.ABSTRATC: In this article, new translators profiles are discussed based on the development of two competences in an undergraduate program: the extralinguistic competence, and the instrumental and professional competence, e.g., specialized knowledge, the knowledge and use of modern technologies, and the knowledge of the market. This article focuses on the importance of developing these two subcompetences in translation programs in order to produce competitive professional translators, and it proposes a set of recommended activities for the development of each subcompetence. Likewise, the advantages and disadvantages of these activities are discussed as well as the changes and implications for translation teaching

Combining translation into the second language and second language learning : an integrated computational approach

This thesis explores the area where translation and language learning intersects. However, this intersection is not one in the traditional sense of second language teaching: where translation is used as a means for learning a foreign language. This thesis treats translating into the foreign language as a separate entity, one that is as important as learning the foreign language itself. Thus the discussion in this thesis is especially relevant to an academic institution which contemplates training foreign language learners who can perform translation into the foreign language at a professional level. The thesis concentrates on developing a pedagogical model which can achieve the goal of fostering linguistic competence and translation competence at the same time. It argues that constructing such a model under a computerised framework is a viable approach, since the task of translation nowadays relies heavily on all kinds o

Translation Technology and Ethical Competence: An Analysis and Proposal for Translators’ Training

The practice of translation today is inextricably linked to the use of technology, and this is reflected in how translator training is conceptualized, with technologies present in every area of such training. More and more authors have begun to voice their concerns about the ethical issues posed by the use of technology and artificial intelligence systems, and our focus here is to ask whether such concerns are being reflected in pedagogical models and teaching programs in the field of translation. To this end, we analyze a variety of translation and translation technology (TT) competence models, together with a review of the literature on ethics, and a corpus analysis of TT syllabi to explore the different sub-competences addressed in these. The analysis reveals that ethical competence is not specifically addressed in TT classes, or at least it is not reflected in our corpus. The literature review also illustrates a dearth of specific competence models for TT classes, as well as a lack of pedagogical interventions to develop ethical sub-competence, something we aim to address by developing a series of new models and tools. We conclude that the inclusion of ethical issues in the TT classroom is still far from widespread, despite it being a necessary step towards enabling new generations to act critically and professionally.This publication forms part of the research project “Digitisation, processing and online publication of open, multilingual and gender-sensitive terminology resources in the digital society (DIGITENDER)” (TED2021-130040B-C21), funded by Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (10.13039/501100011033) and by the European Union “NextGenerationEU”/Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia

Image processing mini manual

The intent is to provide an introduction to the image processing capabilities available at the Langley Research Center (LaRC) Central Scientific Computing Complex (CSCC). Various image processing software components are described. Information is given concerning the use of these components in the Data Visualization and Animation Laboratory at LaRC

The proper place of professionals (and non-professionals and machines) in web translation

La quantitat de treball disponible per al traductor professional a la web sembla que va disminuint, a causa del efecte de pinça que duen a terme la traducció automàtica i la traducció col·laborativa (crowdsourcing). Per mantenir l'estatus professional, el traductor ha de triar entre especialitzar-se en una àrea altament regulada o bé convertir-se en un expert en control de la qualitat del llenguatge.La cantidad de trabajo disponible para el traductor profesional en la web parece estar disminuyendo, debido al efecto de pinza entre la traducción automática y la traducción de colaboración (crowdsourcing). Para mantener su estatus profesional, el traductor debe elegir entre especializarse en áreas altamente reguladas o convertirse en un experto en el control de la calidad lingüística.The amount of work available to the professional translator on the web appears to be shrinking, due to the pincer effect of both machine translation and "crowdsourcing". To maintain its professional status, the translator must choose between specialising in a highly regulated area and becoming a language quality assurance expert