Translators revising translators: a fruitful alliance

Hosting Volunteer Translators

We have developed a web site called Minna no Hon’yaku (“Translation for Everyone by Everyone”), which hosts online volunteer translators. Its core features are (1) a blog-like look and feel; (2) the legal sharing of translations; (3) high quality, comprehensive language resources; and (4) the translation aid editor QRedit. Translators who use QRedit daily reported an up to 30 per cent reduction...

Text Prediction for Translators

Demand for the servi es of translators is on the in rease, and onsequently so is the demand for tools to help them improve their produ tivity. This thesis proposes a novel tool intended to give a translator intera tive a ess to the most powerful translation te hnology available: a ma hine translation system. The main new idea is to use the target text being produ ed as the medium of intera tion...

Translators through History

Permutations via linear translators

We show that many infinite classes of permutations over finite fields can be constructed via translators with a large choice of parameters. We first characterize some functions having linear translators, based on which several families of permutations are then derived. Extending the results of [9], we give in several cases the compositional inverse of these permutations. The connection with com...

TransType: Text Prediction for Translators

Text prediction is a novel form of interactive machine translation that is well suited to skilled translators. It has the potential to assist in several ways: speeding typing, suggesting possible translations, and averting translator errors. However, recent evaluations of a prototype prediction system showed that predictions can also distract and hinder translators if made indiscriminately. We ...