Computer Assisted Translation - Postgraduates

A fully automated process with minimal human intervention.

• Computer-assisted translation

• Computer-aided translation

• Machine translation

Which of the following is true about parallel corpora? (choose all correct answers)

• They are also referred to as translation memories.

• They can be purchased.

• They are used to design rule-based machine translation engines

• They are used to design example-based and statistical machine translation engines

An exact match is a match of ... %

• 99

• 99.9

• 100

• 99-100

Whether a TM will help increase productivity or not depends on its ... (choose all correct answers)

• quality

• price

• relevance to the new source text you are translating

• size

Some challenges for machine translation are ...

• language ambiguity

• language homophone

• language dynamicity

• conceptual gap

Interpreting while not being in the same physical space with any of the clients. This is called ...

• distance interpreting

• remote interpreting

• machine interpreting

To translate strings in mobile apps, you need a CAT tool that can process ...

• PDF files

• iOS and Android strings

• Word files

• HTML files

Compatibility means ...

• the CAT tool can open any file type.

• the CAT tool can be used with any operating system.

To review translation for lexical choices, grammatical structures, and coherent, honest transfer of information is referred to as ...

• quality assessment

• quality assurance

Quality assurance modules in CAT tools review ... (choose all correct answers)

• spelling

• grammatical mistakes

• empty target segments

• inconsistent numbers between source and target