Chartered Institute
of Linguists

Translation Technology and Terminology

This event will introduce you to some useful technology and terminology tools that are available to translators. The event will run for two hours. The first session will be an introduction to using corpora to assist with translation decisions and specialised terminology. The second part will look at some time-saving and organisational tools, as well as speech recognition software, including a brief demo of each tool. There will be a Q&A session after each talk.

Programme

10:00: An introduction to corpora

Speaker – Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

Topics covered:

  • What exactly is a corpus?
  • What can translators gain from using corpora?
  • What types of corpora can help translators?
  • In what ways can corpus queries help in a translation?
  • How to begin using corpora

Q&A session

11:00: Low-cost tech to improve the translation workflow

Speaker – Richard Lackey

Topics covered:

  • IntelliWebSearch - a tool to quickly perform web searches and to perform lookups in online and offline resources
  • PerfectIt - a tool to perform style checks on translated files
  • Dragon NaturallySpeaking - speech recognition software
  • AutoHotkey - a tool to write simple scripts that can aid in speeding up repetitive translation and admin tasks

Q&A session

Speakers

Ana Frankenberg-Garcia

Richard Lackey

When
November 27th, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Location
Online event
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Category Translating Division
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Organiser

CIOL Translating Division