Terminology and Machine Translation——Experimental Results and Construction of Terminological Databank
Xiuying Li · Research and Exploration in Laboratory · 2008
Terminological management is one of the key ingredients of machine translation.The experimental translation results of terms reveal substantial research is necessary to improve the machine translation quality.The automatic extraction of bilingual term equivalents from parallel corpora is a significant technique,yet evaluating the equivalency between the statistically extracted bilingual terms against the translation ratio or translator-oriented dictionaries can not fully account for the usage and function of a given term in a special historical text.Building a descriptive terminological databank out of the versions of historical texts by well-established translators,and assessing the term equivalency by taking into account the influence of historical context,register and style will be essential to improve the accuracy and appropriateness of machine translation.