MACHINE TRANSLATION AND COMPUTERIZED TERMINOLOGY SYSTEMS A TRANSLATOR'S VIEWPOINT.
Peter J. Arthern · 1979
I have been asked to give a translator's viewpoint on translating and the computer, and I would like to emphasize straightaway that what I am going to say is exactly that simply a personal impression of the present situation and future developments. While I am fortunate in being able to follow what is going on as a representative of the Council Secretariat on the Commission's CETIL Committee (Comite d'experts pour le transfer d'information entre langues europeennes) I am not speaking on behalf of the Council Secretariat to-day. Although I have only a short time available, I want to look at translating and the computer from two points of view. The first is that of a fairly large translating organization which is beginning to use a computerized terminology data base - Eurodicautom - and may become a user of machine translation. The second point of view is that of a translator and being a staff translator myself I have had to try to put myself into a freelance translator's shoes as well, in order to get a complete picture.