8. Why translation is difficult for computers

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of figures ix
4. List of tables xiii
5. List of contributors xv
6. 1. Introduction 1
7. 2. The translator’s workstation 13
8. 3. Translation memory systems 31
9. 4. Terminology tools for translators 49
10. 5. Localisation and translation 67
11. 6. Translation technologies and minority languages 87
12. 7. Corpora and the translator 105
13. 8. Why translation is difficult for computers 119
14. 9. The relevance of linguistics for machine translation 143
15. 10. Commercial systems 161
16. 11. Inside commercial machine translation 175
17. 12. Going live on the internet 191
18. 13. How to evaluate machine translation 211
19. 14. Controlled language for authoring and translation 245
20. 15. Sublanguage 283
21. 16. Post-editing 297
22. 17. Machine translation in the classroom 319
23. Index 341