The Production of the AGARD Multilingual Aeronautical Dictionary Using Computer Techniques.

摘要

The AGARD Multilingual Aeronautical Dictionary (MAD), second edition, published in 1980, contained 7,300 technical terms defined in English but also translated into nine other languages. The preparation work was performed by some 250 scientists and engineers who were members of AGARD and involved the translation skills of staff in many of the NATO nations. Nearly all the compilation and setting work for the book was done by computer and automatic photo-composition, a task of great complexity and one which is unique. The purpose of this publication is to record how the task was approached, in terms of management planning; to state frankly what went wrong, so that these errors will not be repeated; and to make some modest reference to the successes of the programme. It does not deal in great detail with the technical aspects of the task. (Author)