Translation Of Technical Terms Research Articles

Some suggestions regarding the translation of technical terms

Some suggestions regarding the translation of technical terms

FEATURES OF TRANSLATING POLYSEMANTIC TERMS OF THE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND POWER INDUSTRY

The main purpose of the article is to study the features of translation of polysemantic terms of the electrical and electrical industries, as well as to analyze the means of translation in connection with the improvement of the translation of technical texts. The article analyzes the technical terms of the electrical and electric power industries and identifies the difficulties that arise during their translation into Ukrainian. In particular, one-word and verbose terms are distinguished and their features can be traced when translated into Ukrainian. Polysemantic terms in technical texts, the translation of which causes the most difficulties, are also presented and analyzed. Based on the results of the analysis, a conclusion is made about the peculiarities of the translation of technical terms as a whole. Given that in the modern world there are more and more terms that are key in scientific and technical discourse, the issues of their functioning and translation are relevant and require constant and detailed study.
 Keywords: technical translation; terms of the electrical engineering and power industry; terminological system; polysemy of terminology; translation of terms.

Translating best practice into real practice: Methods, results and lessons from a project to translate an English sexual health survey into four Asian languages.

Migrants are underrepresented in population health surveys. Offering translated survey instruments has been shown to increase migrant representation. While 'team translation' represents current best practice, there are relatively few published examples describing how it has been implemented. The purpose of this paper is to document the process, results and lessons from a project to translate an English-language sexual health and blood-borne virus survey into Khmer, Karen, Vietnamese and Traditional Chinese. The approach to translation was based on the TRAPD (Translation, Review, Adjudication, Pretesting, and Documentation) model. The English-language survey was sent to two accredited, independent translators. At least one bilingual person was chosen to review and compare the translations and preferred translations were selected through consensus. Agreed translations were pretested with small samples of individuals fluent in the survey language and further revisions made. Of the 51 survey questions, only nine resulted in identical independent translations in at least one language. Material differences between the translations related to: (1) the translation of technical terms and medical terminology (e.g. HIV); (2) variations in dialect; and (3) differences in cultural understandings of survey concepts (e.g. committed relationships). Survey translation is time-consuming and costly and, as a result, deviations from TRAPD 'best practice' occurred. It is not possible to determine whether closer adherence to TRAPD 'best practice' would have improved the quality of the resulting translations. However, our study does demonstrate that even adaptations of the TRAPD method can identify issues that may not have been apparent had non-team-based or single-round translation approaches been adopted. Given the dearth of clear empirical evidence about the most accurate and feasible method of undertaking translations, we encourage future researchers to follow our example of making translation data publicly available to enhance transparency and enable critical appraisal.

Ordinarium Missae & Ordo Missae - notable differences to be maintained in translation?

Two Latin expressions, Ordo missae and Ordinarium missae, are employed in precise, technical ways in liturgical books and documents of the Roman rite but they are sometimes confused with each other. One has been commonly used when referring to musical compositions of the longer sung texts of the Roman Mass and was used thus in the new chapter of the Institutio Generalis Missali Romani which treats of matters within the competence of Episcopal Conferences. Recent translations of the two Latin expressions in liturgical books for local churches have taken different and even inconsistent routes. Less than ideal translation has affected the rendering of an important new text in the General Instruction regarding the composition of liturgical music and Episcopal Conferences. The author seeks to clarify the usage of the two Latin expressions and how they have been translated differently and inconsistently in major Western languages. He concludes by suggesting there be a consistent approach in the translation of technical terms from Latin into spoken languages.

Corpus-based Priming for Inverse Translation Training

Training students to become competent translators out of their mother tongue is a challenging objective. Yet for Chinese undergraduate English majors, inverse translation is a necessary skill and an indispensible curricular component. In the pedagogical contexts, teachers and students of translation practice have generally found dictionaries to be of limited use as the explanations or answers offered are often de-contextualized, outdated, misleading or simply wrong. In contrast, corpora can offer more in-situ reference for the struggling translator. It is an area rather under-explored, especially in China, where not much research focusing on corpus-based priming in inverse translation training has been done. Presenting a case study of 50 Chinese undergraduate students majoring in English while they complete three rounds of translation of the same ST with/without different reference materials as tool kits, this paper explores whether, how and what types of corpora can be used in the classroom of translation training for quality improvement in student’s inverse translation practice. Upon analysis, evidence from the tentative experiment confirms that a corpus-based preparatory activation session prior to inverse translation serves to prepare students in terms of linguistic capacity and knowledge base for the task at hand. However, students might place too much importance on the technical aspects of the ST and become implicitly influenced more by the reference material in their translation of technical terms than the more general words and phrases in the original texts. Grammatical nuances and creative writing are also areas in which the priming effect is weak.

Technical Terms Translation: Translation Techniques and Quality of Automotive Terms in the Yamaha Nmax Owner’s Manual

<p>In Indonesia, many types of motorcycle are produced and marketed. Most of them are made by foreign manufacturers. The manual books which are printed in foreign languages such as English may cause some problems for the motorcycle owners and users in the country. One of the problems is the translation of the technical terms in the manual books. It is thus challenging to analyze the translation techniques applied in the translation of the automotive technical terms in <em>Yamaha Nmax Owner’s Manual</em>, and the impact of translation techniques on the accuracy, acceptability and readability. <em>Yamaha Nmax </em>is one of the motorcycles with high sales rate in the country. The methods of data collection consist of content analysis and in-depth interview with the raters and respondents. The results show that there are 8 techniques used to translate the technical terms and the use of the techniques result in a translation which is in general accurate, acceptable, and readable. The technique which produces translations with high level of accuracy, acceptability and readability is established equivalent. Meanwhile, generalization tends to produce translations with low level of accuracy, while borrowing produces translations with low level of acceptability and readability.</p>

Analysis on the Translation of Technical Terms in Disaster Management: A Case Study in News Translation by Novice Translators

Analysis on the Translation of Technical Terms in Disaster Management: A Case Study in News Translation by Novice Translators

TRANSLATION OF TECHNICAL TERMS IN POPULAR SCIENCE TV PROGRAMS

Mass media play a vital role in the life of society, they record and report various events in human life. Television texts and hosts’ speech are full of stylistically marked lexical units and a variety of means of expression and figurativeness. One of these means is a term which is used in non-specific environment. Terms in non-technical context can not only perform their direct nominative function, but also they can perform a stylistic function enriching the speaker’s speech, hence making it more interesting for the audience. Terms in popular science TV shows can denote objects, processes and phenomena, as well as be used for description of person’s character and appearance. The article describes and analyzes types of terms used in popular science TV programs, translation techniques applied for metaphorical terms, abbreviations and anthroponyms. The influence of nontechnical context on translation of technical terms has also been highlighted as well as issues concerning it, namely the loss of terminological meaning in the target language (determinologization), acquisition of terminological meaning by target language lexical units (terminologization) and omission of terms in the target language. The research was carried out on original British and American popular science TV programs “Mythbusters”and“TopGear” and their translated versions in Ukrainian.

Translation of Technical Terms: A Case of Law Terms

According to Nida and Taber (1969) a good translation focuses on the meaning or content as such and aims to preserve that intact (p.173) The purpose of this study is to take into account law terms and their equivalents in Persian language and also is to classify and identify the most frequent strategies which are used by Persian translators in the process of translating the law terms from English into Persian. For this purpose, the intended books were studied from the beginning to the end, and instances of law technical terms were identified and compared with their Persian counterparts in translated texts and also their equivalence in law technical dictionary. Based on the results of this research, the strategies used by the translators in translating technical terms of law are not due to the chance, and there is relationship between words and their translation strategy. Hence, the equivalence strategy had the highest percentage which showed that in translating technical words from English into Persian language this strategy was used with the highest frequency by the translators.

The terminology of Pliny the Elder’s cosmology

In volume II of his encyclopaedia Pliny the Elder presents astronomical, meteorological, geographical and climatologic phenomena. The study analyses the use of the most important technical terms with the help of the data of a database specially made for this purpose. The entire Hungarian translation of volume II was made with the help of this database: it facilitated the consistent translation of technical terms. In many cases the terms used by Pliny the Elder have diverse meanings. As the entire volume II is a complex collection of knowledge pertaining to diverse scientific fields existing in our days, the use of terms cannot be classified on the basis of belonging to certain disciplines. In many cases we cannot speak about exact terms yet. However, in Pliny the Elder’s Cosmology the consistent and precise definition and use of terms can sometimes be observed, which refers to the existence of exact technical terms.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning: Multilingual Reference Book in English, Spanish, French and German

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Landscape and Urban Planning: Multilingual Reference Book in English, Spanish, French and German

Identifying Bilingual Synonymous Technical Terms from Phrase Tables and Parallel Patent Sentences

In the task of acquiring technical term translation equivalent pairs, we consider situations where a technical term is observed in many parallel patent sentences and is translated into many translation equivalents. This paper especially studies the issue of identifying synonymous translation equivalent pairs of technical terms. First, we collect candidates of synonymous translation equivalent pairs from parallel patent sentences. Then, we analyze features for identifying synonymous translation equivalent pairs. Finally, we apply the Support Vector Machines (SVMs) to the task of identifying bilingual synonymous technical terms, and achieve the performance of almost 98% precision and over 40% F-measure.

Proposal to realize accountability of science and technology – How should professionals explain risk to society?

The purpose of this paper is to propose a method to create “ setsumei-sekinin” of professionals in science and technology (S&T). “ Setsumei-sekinin” means social responsibility of explanation to society. We conducted a social survey and discussed the required elements of explanation, time, field, and elucidator in three contexts. Second, we discuss the appropriate explanatory methods. The results of our survey were as follows: (1) the suitable timeframe was from three hours to one day, (2) an explanatory meeting was demanded for the field of explanation, (3) third party scientists were expected to be elucidators, and (4) the general public demanded visual presentations, translation of technical terms, and scientific data in the explanation.

Japanese/English Cross-Language Information Retrieval: Exploration of Query Translation and Transliteration

Cross-language information retrieval (CLIR), where queriesand documents are in different languages, has of late become one ofthe major topics within the information retrieval community. Thispaper proposes a Japanese/English CLIR system, where we combine aquery translation and retrieval modules. We currently target theretrieval of technical documents, and therefore the performance of oursystem is highly dependent on the quality of the translation oftechnical terms. However, the technical term translation is stillproblematic in that technical terms are often compound words, and thusnew terms are progressively created by combining existing basewords. In addition, Japanese often represents loanwords based on itsspecial phonogram. Consequently, existing dictionaries find itdifficult to achieve sufficient coverage. To counter the firstproblem, we produce a Japanese/English dictionary for base words, andtranslate compound words on a word-by-word basis. We also use aprobabilistic method to resolve translation ambiguity. For the secondproblem, we use a transliteration method, which corresponds wordsunlisted in the base word dictionary to their phonetic equivalents inthe target language. We evaluate our system using a test collectionfor CLIR, and show that both the compound word translation andtransliteration methods improve the system performance.

Informatics in Arabic Dictionaries

Previous research emphasized the importance of the interaction between informatics and Arabic at the present age. The translation of technical terms in all fields in general, and in the informatics fields in particular has been considered as a major problem in the informatics-Arabic interaction. This paper presents a comprehensive view of the available references of Arabic terms in the various fields of informatics. This would contribute to establishing the necessary infrastructure for the development of a unified standared reference of Arabic informatics terms that can respond to future change.