On-The-Fly Translator Assistant (Readability and Terminology Handling)

This paper describes a new methodology for developing CAT tools that assist translators of technical and scientific texts by (i) on-the-fly highlight of nominal and verbal terminology in a source language (SL) document that lifts possible syntactic ambiguity and thus essentially raises the document readability and (ii) simultaneous translation of all SL document oneand multicomponent lexical units. The methodology is based on a language-independent hybrid extraction technique used for document analysis, and language-dependent shallow linguistic knowledge. It is targeted at intelligent output and computationally attractive properties. The approach is illustrated by its implementation into a CAT tool for the Russian-English language pair. Such tools can also be integrated into full MT systems.