Controlled English Advantages for Translated and Original English Documents

The Controlled English we have developed for Caterpillar is designed to reduce translation costs by facilitating machine translation. It is also preferred by English-speaking readers of the resulting documents. The approach to machine translation and the resulting design of the Controlled English were optimized to Caterpillar's environment and requirements, including a very high document and translation volume. The basic framework of the Caterpillar solution can be adapted to other, more typical, sets of documentation requirements. We describe an adaptation we are making for Diebold, based on machine-assisted human translation.