Re: Emacs as a translator's tool

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> 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.


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Jean-Christophe Helary @brandelune
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