Moving Towards Personalising Translation Technology

O’Brien, Sharon; Conlan, Owen

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“…Since the beginning of this century, technology has had a determinant impact on translation professionals because they have had to catch up with the increased demand for the translation services provided by the digital world. Large suppliers of multilingual services, small translation companies, and freelance translators have increasingly been required to use translation memory (TM) and terminology management solutions -the main features of CAT tools (Doherty, 2016;Jiménez-Crespo, 2020;O'Brien & Conlan, 2018;O'Hagan, 2013).…”

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“…The parallel development of CAT tools was heavily fueled by the localization industry and was mainly based on TM and terminology management systems. At the same time, language technology developments encompassed and combined both TM and MT systems in order to try to have the best of both worlds and boost the automatic segment retrieval of TM by using MT methods (Kanavos & Kartsaklis, 2010;Lagoudaki, 2008;Melby, 2007;O'Brien & Conlan, 2018).…”

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Audiovisual translation, translators, and technology: From automation pipe dream to human–machine convergence

Granell,

Chaume

2023

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Audiovisual translation (AVT), broadly understood as a synonym for media content localization, and not only as a particular practice of linguistic transfer, is undergoing a revolution that was unthinkable only a few years ago – even in those territories where viewers are less accustomed to localized content. Digitalization and technological changes, which have had such an impact on the way audiovisual texts – whether original, localized, or adapted – are produced, distributed, edited, consumed, and shared have also had a substantial impact on the AVT profession. This article explores the ways in which technology has been evolving as an aid to translators: from being merely a clerical aid for transcribing digital texts to automating tasks and integrating machine translation into human translation processes. This it does by providing a range of tools to assist translators in their work processes, progressively migrating both tools and processes to cloud-based environments. The focus is then on AVT, and more particularly on dubbing, where digitalization has shaped the consumer market and posed several challenges to language technology developments and AVT professional practices. Academia has also paid attention to such developments and has increasingly dealt with a number of matters affecting both practice and training to cater to the needs of current media markets. A final word is devoted to proposing a literacy-based framework for the training of translators that embraces technology so as to incorporate automation as an additional aid and which redefines the audiovisual translator’s workstation.

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Audiovisual translation, translators, and technology: From automation pipe dream to human–machine convergence

Granell,

Chaume

2023

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Hubscher-Davidson

Lehr

2021

Improving the Emotional Intelligence of Translators

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The “technological turn” in translation studies

Jiménez-Crespo

2020

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For over two decades, Translation Studies (TS) scholars have argued that the discipline is going through a ‘technological turn’. This paper critically questions whether TS has already completed this “paradigmatic” or “disciplinary turn,” “a clearly visible and striking” change of direction that can “perhaps even [amount] to a redefinition of the subject concerned” (Snell-Hornby 2010, 366). After a revision of the notion of ‘turn’ in TS, it will be argued that the ‘technological’ one has been completed and it can, in fact, be assessed “after it is already complete” (ibid). It will be shown how the emergence and consolidation of this turn were “driven not by theoretical developments in cognate areas of inquiry,” but are an “emergent property from new forms of translation practice” (Cronin 2010, 1). As a consequence, it has permeated TS across its different subdisciplines, both in their theoretical apparatus and/or in their research methodologies. In this examination, the picture that emerges is that translation, across TS, has in fact been redefined in one way or another as an instance of “human-computer interaction,” even in contexts such as literary translation.

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Moving Towards Personalising Translation Technology

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Audiovisual translation, translators, and technology: From automation pipe dream to human–machine convergence

Audiovisual translation, translators, and technology: From automation pipe dream to human–machine convergence

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The “technological turn” in translation studies

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