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Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editor’s notes 1
4. Section I: the translator and … word processing
5. Word processing and the independent translator 9
6. Translator strategies for getting the most out of word processing 14
7. System networking for translators 19
8. Nuts and bolts for translators 25
9. The ideal workstation? Perspective of the independent translator 29
10. The ideal workstation? Perspective of the In-house translator 36
11. Introducing future translators to word processing 42
12. Section II: The translator and … the lexical data base
13. Introduction to lexical data bases 51
14. Termium 54
15. Automation of terminology in the international organizations
16. United nations 64
17. World Bank 68
18. International Monetary Fund 73
19. BTUSB 76
20. Strategies for the sharing of lexical data bases 79
21. Automated lookup 87
22. Mercury 92
23. The ideal lexical database systems 97
24. Section III: the translator … machine translation
25. A translator’s map of machine translation 105
26. Two Aspects of interactive machine translation 116
27. Getting smart in many languages 124
28. The role of the translator in making an MT system Work 127
29. Making an MT system work 133
30. The translator and the postediting experience 140
31. The translator and the dictionary experience 149
32. MT in large organizations 159
33. MT in large organizations 167
34. MT in a service service bureau 174
35. Information-only machine translation 178
36. MT and the independent translator 190
37. Factors in the evaluation of MT 198
38. Factors in the evaluation of MT 203
39. Roundup
40. Deciding on the level of computer participation in translation 217
41. Future perspectives in Translation technologies 223
42. Contributors 241
43. Call for proposal: translator and interpreter training and foreign language pedagogy 244
44. Corporate members 245
45. Institutional members 247