翻译与技术

　　翻译工具几十年以来的发展反映出不同终端用户群快速增长的翻译服务需求。《翻译与技术》讨论了已经出现的变化，从比较熟悉的翻译工具的发展，如机器翻译系统，谈到现阶段其他的翻译工具和翻译资源，对专职翻译及偶尔从事翻译的人都很有帮助。还探讨了翻译工具的改进对本地化产业的促进，进一步挖掘了技术与翻译理论之间的关系，阐述了为什么两个都与翻译有关的方面常被看作截然不同的研究领域。《翻译与技术》面向大学高年级学生和研究生，对现代翻译中使用的技术、目前的发展以及未来的趋势作了一个总览，对希望探索翻译与技术这一领域的专业译员也很有裨益。

　　C.K.夸是职业的技术翻译专家。她曾为大学本科生以及研究生设计翻译课程并任教，并曾担任多语言机器翻译的咨询顾问。

List of Figures, Tables and Boxes
　Acknowledgements
　List of Abbreviations
　Introduction

　1　Definition of Terms
　Machine translation
　Human-aided machine translation
　Machine-aided human translation
　Human translation
　The localization industry
　Conclusion

　2　Translation Studies and Translation Technology
　Translation theory
　Academic and professional groups in translation
　Linguistic theories in machine translation systems
　Translation studies
　The translation process
　Conclusion

　3 Machine Translation Systems
　Major historical developments
　Architectures
　Hybrid and interactive machine translation systems
　Online machine translation systems
　Commercial machine translation systems
　Reasons for using machine translation systems
　Conclusion

　4 Computer-Aided Translation Tools and Resources
　Workbenches
　Translation support tools and resources
　Localization tools
　Commercial computer-aided translation tools
　Standards for data interchange
　Conclusion

　5　Evaluating Translation Tools
　Machine translation systems
　Computer-aided translation tools
　Stakeholders
　Evaluation methods
　General frameworks for evaluating translation tools
　Conclusion

　6　Recent Developments and Future Directions
　Machine translation systems
　Computer-aided translation tools
　Translation systems with speech technology
　Translation systems for minority languages
　Translation on the web
　Machine translation systems and the semantic web
　The localization industry
　Conclusion

　7　Translation Types Revisited
　Relationships between topics and translation types
　Machine translation systems
　Computer-aided translation tools
　Conclusion
　Appendices
　References
　Index