Commented Translation of Technical Text

Tato bakalářská práce se zaměřuje na překlad učebního textu z oblasti elektrotechniky. Práce má za cíl přeložit a analyzovat odborný učební text a je rozdělena na tři hlavní části. V teoretické části je uvedena zejména charakteristika odborného a učebního stylu, typy překladatelských postupů, překladatelské transformace a funkční perspektiva větná. Praktická část předkládá anglický překlad úryvku ze skript a analytická část má za cíl analyzovat problémy, které se vyskytly při překladu a zhodnotit charakteristické znaky odborného učebního stylu založené na analýze tohoto překladu.This bachelor thesis deals with the translation of a didactic text from the electrical engineering field. The work aims to translate and analyze a didactic technical text and is divided into three main parts. The theoretical part introduces namely the characteristics of technical style and didactic style, types of translation procedures, translation transformation and the functional sentence perspective. The practical part presents an English translation of an excerpt taken from a university textbook and the analytic part aims presenting the problems that occurred during the translation process and the assessment of the characteristics of technical didactic style based on this translation analysis.

Japanese/English Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Exploration of Query Translation and Transliteration

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), where queries and documents are in different languages, has of late become one of the major topics within the information retrieval community. This paper proposes a Japanese/English CLIR system, where we combine a query translation and retrieval modules. We currently target the retrieval of technical documents, and therefore the performance of our system is highly dependent on the quality of the translation of technical terms. However, the technical term translation is still problematic in that technical terms are often compound words, and thus new terms are progressively created by combining existing base words. In addition, Japanese often represents loanwords based on its special phonogram. Consequently, existing dictionaries find it difficult to achieve sufficient coverage. To counter the first problem, we produce a Japanese/English dictionary for base words, and translate compound words on a word-by-word basis. We also use a probabilistic method to resolve translation ambiguity. For the second problem, we use a transliteration method, which corresponds words unlisted in the base word dictionary to their phonetic equivalents in the target language. We evaluate our system using a test collection for CLIR, and show that both the compound word translation and transliteration methods improve the system performance