Computer-aided Translation Technology Research Articles

Developing Translation Competence of Undergraduate Translation Students under Computer-aided Translation Technology

College students who major in translation often face psychological and physiological challenges that affect their learning experience. They have a particular interest in learning translation, but their level is not high; their enthusiasm for translation learning is not high, and they lack confidence. This paper divided them into control and experimental groups comprising 50 students. Before introducing computer-aided translation (CAT), students in both groups were given the same basic training, including language, translation theory, and professional knowledge, thus ensuring that both groups had similar essential competencies. The experimental group introduced CAT and provided them with the necessary training and guidance to ensure their complete understanding and familiarity with CAT technology. Regular translation tests were conducted on two groups of students, mainly examining their performance in vocabulary translation, grammar translation, and discourse cohesion. Meanwhile, feedback and discussion with the experimental group of students can help them improve the quality of their translations. Before the introduction of CAT technology, 25% of vocabulary omissions occurred, while after the introduction of CAT technology, 7% of vocabulary omissions occurred. This article contributed to the cultivation of translation competencies of undergraduate translation students.

The Practice and Application of Computer-Aided Translation Technology in English Teaching

English teaching is essential to computer-aided translation technology (CATT). It can improve students’ learning efficiency and cultivate their comprehensive ability. It can also promote China’s cultural dissemination and international exchange. This paper mainly introduces the characteristics of computer-aided translation technology and how to effectively apply it to real life to analyze and study its significant impact on our daily work. Then this paper designs an English teachingassisted translation model based on computer-aided technology. Then the performance of the English teaching model is tested by simulation. The test results show that the accuracy of computer-aided translation is more than 92%, and the translation time is within 10s. This shows that the model can meet users' needs and provide constructive suggestions and opinions for English teachers to improve English teaching.

On Teaching Reform and Innovation of Computer-Aided Translation Technology

In the era of artificial intelligence, translation market puts forward the new requirements for translation talents in translation technology. Nowadays, the cultivation of translation talents is far from meeting the needs of the market in translation technology. Therefore, it is urgent to for higher education institutes to cultivate the translation technology competence of translation talents. Taking South China Business College of Guangdong University of Foreign Studies as an example, this research carries out a teaching reform of the course Computer-aided Translation (CAT) for undergraduate students majoring in Translation. Supported by the translation projects, this paper conducts an empirical-experimental study on "campus class", "enterprise class " and "research and learning" from the perspectives of translation competence model by the PACTE group. The research results finds that teaching reform and innovation of the Course by the fusion of education and industry is of great practical significance to the training of application-oriented translation talents.

Enhancing Instrumental Competence in Translator Training in a Higher Education Context: A Task-Based Approach

This study aims to design a task-based e-Course for teaching computer-aided translation technology in a higher education context. It also investigates the impact of the e-Course on enhancing the instrumental competence of trainees, as reflected from their use of translation products. This study employs mixed qualitative and quantitative methods using descriptive statistics, pre-post paired sample tests, and an analysis of the translation process. Results of the paired-sample tests showed a noticeable increase in the scores of trainees. The difference in means between the pre and post-tests is statistically significant at P < 0.05. The descriptive statistics of errors have also shown that translation errors decreased dramatically after completing the e-Course. Analysis of the translation process indicated that trainees developed a noticeable mastery over translation competence when employing various CAT tools in the translation process. The study recommends that translator training in a higher education context in this age of globalization and localisation should familiarise trainees with the technical aspects of the industry and align with the industry’s needs and specifications. In this sense, this study culminates in the design of a learning prototype for the teaching of various desktop and cloud-based computer-aided translation tools and not only those used by big companies in a blended, hybrid or fully online environment.

The Practice and Application of Computer-Aided Translation Technology in English Teaching

The Practice and Application of Computer-Aided Translation Technology in English Teaching

Research on the Application of Language Transfer Theory Based on Computer-Aided Translation Software in English Translation Teaching

With China’s more integration into the process of internationalization, the increasingly close international exchanges and cooperation have provided an unprecedented opportunity for the growth of the translation shop, and the development of the translation shop has provided an unprecedented opportunity for the cultivation of talents. Especially the training of English undergraduate applied translation talents puts forward higher requirements. An excellent translator should not only have good translation ability, but also be good at using new translation techniques to complete translation tasks more efficiently. According to the spirit of the syllabus of English majors in universities, translation course is to cultivate students’ basic ability of writing translation, to conquer the translation abilities of English and Chinese words, long sentences and various styles, and to translate between English and Chinese. At the same time requires accurate and smooth translation of 250-300 words per hour. It has become the goal of more colleges and universities to train senior applied talents with solid English language foundation, skilled translation skills, broad basic theoretical knowledge of international business, good cultural literacy and strong cross-cultural communication skills, and skilled use of English in foreign affairs, trade, culture, education, news media, tourism and other departments engaged in management, translation, foreign trade, international business and foreign tourism. And the current translation course content, the question also can not be underestimated,. The classroom is monotonous, the skill training is not in place, the translation lesson suffers the student’s neglect and the complaint. Therefore, this requires that the English undergraduate translation teaching should be synchronized with the society, change to the social and economic growth, actively explore the practice of computer-aided translation technology, and apply it properly to the English undergraduate translation teaching activities. Try to effectively change the traditional translation practice teaching mode and improve the teaching effect.

Research Report on the Publicity of Hangzhou’s International Image: The English Translation of Global Communication Language

Through the two main methods of field investigation (data collection) and personal interviews, this research report, combined with studies of translation on global communication language in China, investigates the English translation of global communication service in Hangzhou by using professional OCR recognition software and computer-aided translation (CAT) technology, explores the confusion in the translation of these language collected from the West Lake scenic area, museums, the Asian Games’ main venues and traffic along the route, etc., then carrying out detailed classification and analysis of translation errors and analyzes their occurrence in many aspects. Finally, it puts forward corresponding countermeasures and suggestions to improve the translation quality. The report points out that global communication language is an indispensable part of China’s foreign language services, city’s international language environment and global image construction, and the translation is also related to China’s foreign language education planning and city-level policy research. Translation of global communication language should use appropriate translation strategies, and should be leveled up to foreign communication translation and cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries as well as be examined from the perspective of external publicity and construction of international city image. The Hangzhou government should also effectively insure the translation quality, service quality and city benefits of global communication language on a macro level.

Multimedia Interaction-Based Computer-Aided Translation Technology in Applied English Teaching

Multimedia interaction-based computer-aided translation (CAT) is an effective method for translating massive multimedia applications. It is an essential English learning tool for college students with majors in multimedia technology. English teachers need to properly guide their students to use CAT technology by improving the students’ English translation capabilities via reasonable setting of courses, selection of multimedia materials for teaching, and implementation of learning multimedia assessment. This paper proposes a semiautomatic evaluation method for a machine translation system based on fuzzy mathematics. It first discusses the characteristics of multimedia CAT software, describes its working principle, and proposes an optimization scheme suitable for translating teaching by analyzing its advantages and disadvantages. The author believes that only through the combination of multimedia interaction-based CAT teaching and traditional translation teaching we can better achieve the purpose of translation education to improve the quality and English-speaking talent.

Research on English Translation based on Computer Technology

With the rapid development of science and technology, computer technology has been applied to all walks of life, including English translation. Through computer technology translation, we can greatly improve the efficiency of translation production, which has an unprecedented impact on the language service industry. At the same time, with the rapid development of global economy, the economy and society put forward higher requirements for the translation industry, which requires us to constantly improve the quality and speed of translation. Therefore, in order to better English translation, computer science and technology has brought a significant basis for it. However, due to the limitations of computer language translation technology, we must adopt post editing method to adjust the machine translation, which will improve the accuracy of translation, such as computer aided technology (hereinafter referred to as CAT) software. First, this paper introduces the main role of computer-aided translation technology. Then, this paper analyzes the important principles of computer-aided translation software. Finally, some suggestions are put forward.

Facile Solutions to the Problems Associated with Chemical Information and Mathematical Symbolism While Using Machine Translation Tools.

Advances in computer-aided translation technology have made tremendous progress in accuracy in the past few years. Chemical Abstracts Service of the American Chemical Society summarizes scientific works from more than 50 languages and allows the users to search papers in nine selected languages. Currently, only the abstracts are rendered into English by human experts or by machine translation because full text translation of millions of articles is beyond the human capacity today. An English translation of a research paper, scientific book, or patent is often required for research, data mining, and for historical purposes from various foreign languages. Many fundamental papers in chemistry, quantum chemistry, physics, and mathematics contain a significant number of chemical or mathematical equations. One of the major known problems in machine translation of such symbolically dense texts is incorrect or meaningless output. This article describes how to optimize the existing machine translation tools to read foreign language papers embedded with chemical/mathematical equations. German and French languages have been selected for illustrative purposes for English translation. Direct upload of text with extensive symbolism is possible with certain services, but this also occasionally produces erroneous rendition into English. A facile solution to the associated problems with embedded equations and mathematical formulas is replacing the equations and notations with "dummy" variables. The placeholder or dummy symbols can be removed after translation, and the original equations are substituted again. This approach, which can be automated in future, relies on the idea that chemical formulas and mathematical notations are universal. Following the guidelines in the article, excellent translations can be produced from a text having interspersed equations and chemical symbols.

Research on Application of Computer Aided Translation to Translation Teaching

This research aims to do contribution for the application of computer-aided translation technology in the traditional translation teaching in universities. Compared with the arduous manual translation, computer-aided translation can increase translation efficiency. The application of computer-aided translation to translation teaching can improve the teaching quality and meet the massive demand of translation job market. Based on the development of CAT technology and its experiment in modern translation industry, the necessity of applying CAT technology in translation teaching is convincingly proven, which is followed by the elaboration on the design of CAT teaching modules and the construction of CAT teaching system in this research. This research investigated the application of CAT to translation teaching, including designing teaching mode, using software and hardware, managing teaching files, storing teaching resources, establishing the translation corpus and so on, which have great significances to translation teaching and translation practice. Finally, a conclusion is made that only when translation education combining with CAT Technology, can translation education meet the demand of increasing translation market, and only by applying CAT technology in translation teaching in universities, can the translation education catch up with the development of the translation industry in this information age.

Research on High Quality Bilingual Parallel Documents of Science and Technology Produced by Application Software Tools and Control Language

The aim of this study is to help English-based technicians produce high-quality translated documents with the help of free software tools (such as machine translation+post-translation compilation technology, computer-aided translation technology, etc.). This paper discusses a method of iteratively rewriting technical documents to help technicians generate more accurate bilingual parallel documents. It also studies how to use control language rules to rewrite technical documents to eliminate ambiguity and sentence complexity in order to improve the translatability of documents. Finally, a method is proposed to help users choose the most suitable machine translation engine.

The undergraduate learner translator corpus: a new resource for translation studies and computational linguistics

Around the world, a growing interest has been seen in learner translator corpora, which are invaluable resources for teaching and research. This paper introduces a new resource to support researchers from different interdisciplinary areas such as computational linguistics, descriptive translation studies, computer-aided translation technology, Arabic machine translation applications, cognitive science, and translation pedagogy. Motivated by the lack of learner translator resources that provide data about learners of translation from and into Arabic, the undergraduate learner translator corpus (ULTC) is an ongoing, error-tagged sentence-aligned parallel corpus of English, Arabic, and French, with Arabic as its main language. The present corpus, consisting of parallel texts of female learners of translation from English or French into Arabic, is the first of its kind in terms of the languages represented, tasks covered, and number of students involved. It is also unique in terms of combining many complementary corpora of cross-lingual data, each of which has its own web-based query interface and corpus analysis tools. This paper describes the ULTC compilation process, preliminary findings, and planned future expansion and research.

Exploration and Research on Computer Aided Translation Technology and English Translation Practice

In recent years, the rapid development of science and technology and economic globalization have made the demand for translation more and more in all walks of life. Therefore, computer-aided translation technology has received more and more attention. Combining modern information technology with traditional translation theory, this paper expounds the principle of computer-aided translation technology, and uses the combination of translation memory technology and mixed strategy of statistics and examples to realize computer-assisted translation system. According to the specific English translation practice research, it is proposed to use translation memory technology to optimize translation process, improve translation quality and translation efficiency, and hope to bring work help to the majority of people engaged in English translation, so that their work can be carried out more smoothly.

Application of Computer-aided Translation in English Teaching

The continuous development of computer information technology has brought about many changes in people’s life. At present, the computer-aided translation technology (abbreviated as CAT hereafter), being a kind of important auxiliary method, has been widely used in software localization and the translation of scientific works. This realistic need has aroused more and more attention to the development and use of CAT tools. Using the computer to assist teaching was first initiated in the USA in the 1950’s and then widely spread all over the world. Until recently, an increasing number of teachers get to know its great use, and try to apply it to the process of teaching. In China the application of CAT in translation teaching is still at the initial stage. In this paper, the author focuses on the present situation of the adoption of CAT technology in translation teaching in China. This paper conducted a survey to investigate people’s understanding over it from teachers’ perspective and existing problems in its adoption in translation teaching.

Computer Aided Translation Technology Application in ESP Teaching

With the development of computer and the Internet, traditional teaching methods have been greatly challenged, so does ESP teaching. In order to cope with the new trend and the changes happened in classroom teaching and learning, teachers should turn their eyes on more effective methods especially the ones integrated with computer and the Internet technology. English for Specific purposes (ESP) has a long tradition, as a movement designed to respond to non-English majors’ needs both for academic and cross cultural communication purpose in specific scientific fields and professional settings. The purpose of ESP teaching may lay both in explaining basic language knowledge used in a particular subject and promoting the abilities to use English as a tool or a way to learn the special subject. How to teach ESP and are there any new methods can be applied into classroom teaching are remain the hot topic which have been discussed recently. Nowadays, in this information age, many scholars devote themselves to the exploration of computer aided teaching in particular subjects, and computer aided translation is of great importance in ESP teaching. It is a subject involves the basic concepts of computer-aided translation technology, helps students learn to use a variety of computer-aided translation tools, enhances their ability to engage in various kinds of language service in such a technical environment. This study explores the method of applying basic principles of computer aided translation in ESP teaching, including using searching engine or an appropriate electronic dictionary to translate a term, using proper software to construct a terminology database, using corpus to refine an academic writing and etc.. It can not only combine modern technology with traditional teaching but can also enhance the ESP learners’ ability in reading and translating, and to make them increasingly autonomous .

Application of Computer-Aided Translation Technology in Translation Teaching

this paper aims to advocate the application of CAT technology in the traditional translation teaching class in universities. Based on the introduction of the development of CAT technology and its wide application in modern translation industry, the necessity of applying CAT technology in translation teaching is convincingly proven, which is followed by an elaboration on the design of CAT teaching modules and the construction of CAT teaching system. At the end of this paper, a conclusion is made that only by applying CAT technology in translation teaching in universities, can the education of translation catch up with the development of the translation industry in this information age.

The Application of Computer-Aided Translation Technology in the Translation Teaching and Research

Due importance has not yet been attached to the application of computer-aided translation (CAT) in the teaching activities in the institutes of higher learning in China. With the differentiation of machine translation and computer-aided translation, this paper tries to clarify the process involved in CAT and illustrate what is expected to be improved within the field of the research of computer-aided translation. It is pointed out in this paper that much effort is required to be made to combine the teaching of translation with computer-aided translation in a scientific way, with the training of computer-aided translation technology taking up its due position in the curriculum of the institutes of higher learning in an effort to facilitate the development of market-oriented and vocation-oriented talents of foreign language and translation.

Computer-Aided Translation Technology and C-E Translation of Tourism Texts

The demands of tourism text translation go up drastically with the rapid development of the tourism industry in China. As the traditional translation mode is characterized by time-wasting and low-efficiency, it is difficult to adapt to the tourism industrial boom. Therefore, it is advisable to make full use of the advanced translation platform built by computer-aided memory techniques, convenient human-machine interactive system, open vocabulary, memory and terminology databases. Thus in this paper, based on the practice of translation, we will explore the application of computer-aided translation technology in C-E translation of tourism texts from the lexeme, syntax and discourse level to improve translation efficiency and quality.

Application of Computer-Aided Translation Technology in Translation Teaching

Application of Computer-Aided Translation Technology in Translation Teaching