Course title

Computer-aided Translation

Instructor

Dr. QIAN Duoxiu

Instructor’s profile

Dr. QIAN Duoxiu obtained her PhD in Translation Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her main research interests include translation studies in the Chinese context, corpus-based translation studies, and translation technology.

Course goals

This course aims to answer the call of this digitalized era and the call of the translation industry. It will introduce various computer applications in translation. After taking this course, students are expected to have both the know-how of translation technology and hands-on experiences of mainstream tools in corpus construction and analysis and computer-aided translation.

Topics

Topics covered in this course include history of machine translation, corpus, corpus construction and analysis, applications of computer technology in translation theory and practice, localization and globalization, etc.

Assessment

Participation and assignments (50%) + Final exam (50%)

Reference books

Bowker, Lynne (2003). Computer-aided Translation Technology. University of Ottawa Press.

Chan, Sin-wai (2007). A Topical Bibliography of Computer (-aided) Translation. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Chan, Sin-wai (2004). A Dictionary of Translation Technology. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Hutchins, W. John & Somers, Harold (1992). An Introduction to Machine Translation. London: Academic Press.

Qian, Duoxiu et al (2011). Computer-aided Translation: A Coursebook. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

Sinclair, John (2000). Corpus,

Concordance, Collocation. Shanghai: Foreign Language Education Press.

Somers, Harold (ed.)（2003）. Computers and

Translation: A Translator’s Guide,

Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Working language

English

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