Integrating Machine Translation (MT) in the Higher Education of Translators and Technical Writers

摘要

This paper describes how MT is integrated into a course project for translation and technicalrnwriting students. The course project is based on the idea of combining controlled language and arnpre-editing step in order to achieve an effective way to prepare contemporary technicalrndocumentation for rule-based machine translation (RBMT). I will explain what I mean byrn“contemporary” within the context of technical documentation and why this attribute plays anrnimportant role within the decision-making process to integrate CL, pre-editing and MT in therncourse project, which also includes practical exercises for the students. In addition, the reasonrnwhy RBMT is the MT method chosen within the context of multilingual text production isrnexplained.