Computer Assisted Translation - TRA 630

This course focuses on computer aids for translation, desktop publishing, and terminology management as well as machine and machine-assisted translation. This course introduces students to Computer Assisted Translation (CAT), highlighting its success and failure in comparison to human translation. In the first part, the course trains the students in the practical use of the computer-assisted translation, focusing on the problems, difficulties, advantages, and shortcomings of this type of activity. In the second part, students are introduced to the latest translation softwares and how to use them. The advantages as well as the limitations of such programs are discussed with a special reference to the translation of scientific and literary texts.