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Re: Emacs as a translator's tool
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Jean-Christophe Helary |
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Re: Emacs as a translator's tool |
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Fri, 5 Jun 2020 13:21:14 +0900 |
> On Jun 5, 2020, at 12:15, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text
> editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure I understand where you're drifting.
>>
>> Idiomatic translations can be helped with tools,
>> but as we see with MT, even the best tools still
>> fail to produce correct idiomatic translations.
>>
>> Which is the reason why I wrote "that is exactly
>> what the translator is here for", meaning that the
>> translator is here to ensure that the translation
>> is idiomatic.
>>
>> The tool can help the translator to produce
>> a string that the translator will validate
>> as idiomatic.
>
> A file with common pitfalls and idiomatic
> translations can help both machine AND human
> translators find the idiomatic translation, or, if
> there isn't one really, what people would say
> instead...
Indeed, and that is just a special case of what we call "contextual matches"
where the source text can match a number of translations but only a few are
correct in the context of the few previous or following segments.
So in terms of CAT functionality, such data would be included in a translation
memory, or a glossary file with comments, etc.
--
Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
http://mac4translators.blogspot.com
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Steinar Bang, 2020/06/01
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/01
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/01
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Marcin Borkowski, 2020/06/04
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/04
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/06/04
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/04
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Jean-Christophe Helary, 2020/06/04
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/04
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- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Marcin Borkowski, 2020/06/05
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/05
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Marcin Borkowski, 2020/06/05
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/07
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/06/07
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/07
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Eric Abrahamsen, 2020/06/07
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/07
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Marcin Borkowski, 2020/06/08
- Re: Emacs as a translator's tool, Emanuel Berg, 2020/06/08