Mastering Wordfast Glossaries and Translation History

Creating Glossaries

Click On the File menu, And then on TM And Glossaries :

Click On the Setup Link, then click the Glossaries tab:

Click On the New button

Adding Words to the glossary

Select The source term (one or more words) and type Ctrl+Alt+T

Tools Menu, Glossary Dialog Box or The icon)

The Original term is already in the Source Field. Simply add the translation in the Target Field. You can also add a comment – something that may prove useful In the future, if you want to remember the situation in which this Translation was used. 

Then click OK To confirm or Cancel To dismiss the dialog.

A placeable is any term or expression contained in the Source segment that is capable of being recognised by Wordfast. Placeables often consist of elements that are found as such in the Translation.

Copy A placeable, simply select it with the or icons.Shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Right and Ctrl+Alt+Left)

PLACEABLES:Numbers,tags,capitalised words,words containing capital letters

PRECURSORS AND PIONEERS:

The use of mechanical dictionaries to overcome the barriers of Language was first suggested in the 17th century.It was not until the 20th century that the first concrete proposals were made. George

Artsrouni, a French-Armenian, and by a Russian, Petr Smirnov-Troyanskii. Artsrouni designed a storage device on paper tape Which could be used to find the equivalent of any word in another Language; a prototype was apparently demonstrated in 1937

.ACRÓNIMOS

FAHQT:Fully Automatic High Quality Translation

HAMT:Human Aided Machine Translation

MAHT:Machine-Aided Human Translation

The Demise of Latin and the rise of national languages encourages the Need for translation and The rise of Calculus and mechanichal Engines.Descartes.                                                                         

-No Machines were built.Mechanical dictionaries were published.

The aim is to create a device to Allow seamless communication between humans.

In 1930s Georges Artsrouni and Petr Troyanskii → Translating machines.

METEO Provided the French translations of weather reports used by airline, Shipping companies and others.

ALPAC (Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee)

-The first public MT demo was given in 1954. 

History of MT:

50s:Infancy,first public MT demo,ALPAC,METEO,war effort.

70s:Only English

80s:Interlingua,example-based MT

90s:Statistical MT

2000s:Hybrid MT

Is good for: Rough translation,computer-aided human translation,translation for limited domain,cross ligual IR