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INBOUND TRANSLATION [2 records]

Record 1 2010-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation and Interpretation
  • Quality Control (Management)
DEF

A translation, usually revised by a human being in opposition to a machine-translation software, that is good enough (content and form) for publication.

CONT

There are at least two translation areas in which MT [machine translation] may play a useful part. One is so-called information-level translation(also called inbound, gisting). The other is publication-level or outbound translation, or translation for dissemination.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction et interprétation
  • Contrôle de la qualité (Gestion)
DEF

Traduction, normallement révisée par un être humain en opposition à un logiciel de traduction automatique, qui est assez bonne (contenu et forme) pour être publiée.

Spanish

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Record 2 2010-11-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation and Interpretation
  • Computer Processing of Language Data
DEF

A translation, usually done by a machine-translation software, that is informative but not good enough (content and form) for publication.

CONT

Internet has proved a ripe market for fully automatic machine translation, both as an online tool for quick "gisting" translations of short documents, and as a tool for surfing Web sites in unfamiliar languages.

Key term(s)
  • gisting MT
  • gisting machine translation

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction et interprétation
  • Informatisation des données linguistiques
DEF

Traduction, normallement faite par un logiciel de traduction automatique, qui est informative mais pas assez bonne (contenu et forme) pour être publiée.

Spanish

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