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> That was the point I was trying to make: that the sensible
> use of automatic
> translation should assist a professional translator in
> converting a large
> text from one language to another. Obviously, computer
> translation can never
> replace a human translator: but I would have thought that for anything
> written in formal non-colloquial language, automatic
> translation would help,
> rather than hinder, the human translator. Would thr
> professional translators
> on the list care to comment on this perhaps overly optimistic
> assumption?
My former company was among the ten biggest translation
agencies and developed the translation memory system
STAR Transit. I know of agencies who got documents that
were written in a sort of "controlled language" style.
The text was pretranslated through Transit to get text for
which a translation already exists replaced by the
translation. Then the remaining text was translated by a
professional machine translation system (e.g. Systran)
that was maintained carefully. And then everything was
sent to a human translator who used Transit to get
fuzzy matches etc.
The whole process was half-way automated.
By this approach the translation was actually consistent,
faster and cheaper. But the point is - as others said
before - that the machine translation _has_ to be checked
by humans.
Regards,
Winfried
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