Dilemma: a tool to ensure quality of new translations by using previous ones
Jussi Karlgren, Hans Karlgren, Paul Pettersson, Magnus Nordström, Bengt Wahrolén · 1994
Dilemma is a tool built to aid human translators in achieving higher productivity and better quality, by presenting lexical information which is automatically extracted from previous translations. The design decisions have been based on analyses of the human translation process. We present the ideas behind the tool, and outline the functionality. The system described has been evaluated by professional translators with good results, and is now being developed further. HUMAN VS. AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION The naive view of text translation is first taking the source text, extracting its meaning, and then producing the destination text in another language, with the same meaning. Unfortunately, this simple and intuitive model leaves out some essential features of translation. First, texts in themselves arguably have no single well-determined meaning separated from their use, intended or actual. Secondly, the process of extracting a meaning from a text is not a problem that is even close to a so...