Profiling Translation Projects: An Essential Part of Routing Translations
Nancy L. Underwood, Bart Jongejan · 1999
Every day in translation departments and agencies managers must decide on the best way to carry out new translation projects. The TransRouter project is building a system to support this decision-making process and we present a brief outline of the system’s architecture before describing the central ro le of profiling a translation project as a preliminary to calculating the most viable potential routes for carrying out a translation. Profiling a translation project involves collecting together all possibly relevant information about the project. This depends not only on information provided by the requester of the translation but also crucially on analysing the source texts themselves. To this end a number of tools for analysing properties of the source texts are also being developed and are described here.