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WorksheetsComputer Assisted Translation - Postgraduates
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
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
... is the ultimate simulation of human translation.
Machine translation
Computer-assisted translation
Terminology management systems
Which of the following features are desirable in a CAT tool? (choose all correct answers)
A bilingual translation memory
A bidirectional translation memory
A unidirectional translation memory
A relational termbase
If you have to use an API key to run the built-in MT engine in a CAT tool, this means that it is a ... service
free
paid
A CAT tool pre-translates based on ...
the output of a built-in MT engine
the stored segments in your TM
both
To add segments to your TM while you translate, you need to click ...
save
confirm
export
import
An analysis report shows ... (choose all correct answers)
the total number of words in the source file
the total number of words in the target file
the total number of translation units
the matching percentages between the target file and the TM
All CAT tools can read ... (choose all correct answers)
TMX files
TBS files
TBX files
TMS files
The ... approach is a word-for-word machine translation approach.
(a)
The free Google translate service is a ... MT engine.
statistical
neural
rule-based
example-based
Neither the rules in rule-based MT engines nor the patterns in the linguistic approach to term extraction is language independent.
true
false
A robust approach to MT means ...
it is 100% accurate.
it is free.
it always gives results even if not accurate
it is neural.
Typical components of a CAT tool are ...
speech recognizers
POS taggers
morphological analyzers
parsers
Time-based evaluation of post-editing effort is not ...
objective
subjective
Source text: I have a car.
MT output: سيارة عندي
Post-Editor لدي عربة
What is the edit distance?
100%
50%
10%
5%
One major challenge for statistical approaches to term extraction is ...
terms are not very frequent.
statistical equations are not language independent
Heuristics mean ... (choose the best answer)
statistical equations
syntactic parsing rule
common-sense rules
common-sense handcrafted rules
To guarantee the quality of crowdsourced translation, websites like MyMemory hire expert annotators to review all submitted translation.
true
false
The main target of CAI tools is to ...
reduce cognitive loads on interpreters
correct interpreter's mistakes
Some challenges for speech recognizers are ... (choose all correct answers)
homophones
hesitations
pauses
different dialects and accents
