Electronic tools for translators
Electronic Tools for Translators offers complete explanations of a wide range of software products, information resources and online services that translators now need to understand and use. Individual chapters run through the origins and nature of the internet, the many ways of searching for information, and translation resources on the web, CD-ROMs as information sources, computer-assisted terminology management, the use and construction of corpora, translation memories, localization tools, a…
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- Full title :Electronic tools for translators / Frank Austermühl.
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Electronic Tools for Translators offers complete explanations of a wide range of software products, information resources and online services that translators now need to understand and use. Individual chapters run through the origins and nature of the internet, the many ways of searching for information, and translation resources on the web, CD-ROMs as information sources, computer-assisted terminology management, the use and construction of corpora, translation memories, localization tools, and the incorporation of machine translation programmes into the translation process.>
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- Publication Date:©2010
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):St. Jerome Publishing
- Place of Publication:Manchester
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (192 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781317641926, 1317641922, 9781900650342, 1900650347
- oclc:ocn908274070
- LC Classification:P308 .A88 2001
- Dewey Decimal:418 .02
Table of Contents
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; How to use this book; 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 links4. 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; Retrieving background information; Tasks; Further reading and Internet links.
6. The world on a disk -- Trans…
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