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Translation technologies

Total questions: 66

Worksheet time: 1hrs 6mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the stages of translation project management comes first:

a)

groundwork

b)

translation

c)

quoting

d)

commissioning

e)

planning

2.

Translation project management is necessary for:

a)

ensuring translation quality

b)

finding clients

c)

keeping track of translator’s work

d)

ensuring flexibility of a translator's schedule

e)

calculating the price of a translation project

3.

What is translation project management software needed by a translation agency for:

a)

doing business efficiently

b)

raising the financial benefit for the translators

c)

managing expectations of clients'

d)

charging clients more for a project

e)

making life harder for translators

4.

What does a project manager do for each person in the translators’ team:

a)

gets them acquainted with a customer

b)

drafts project instructions

c)

asks them how much they want to earn

d)

gets them familiarized with precise standards, defined by the client

5.

Electronic dictionaries are classified on the basis of:

a)

the number of languages

b)

the subject matter

c)

the scope of information

d)

the kind of information

e)

authorship

6.

An electronic dictionary includes the following elements:

a)

a list of words

b)

a program shell

c)

a list of concordances

d)

a search engine

7.

A translation project feasibility study is a report that:

a)

states translation standards and format specifications

b)

gives the details of the project’s earnings

c)

describes translation technologies to be used

d)

outlines the prospects of the translation agency expansion

e)

forms the groundwork for realizing the project

8.

Give the name of the online collection of Ukrainian dictionaries (with phraseologisms) (2 words in Ukrainian):

(a)  

9.

What field of applied linguistic translation science deals with compiling electronic dictionaries?: (2 words in English)

(a)  

10.

Computer translators include:

a)

a compiler

b)

algorithms

c)

dictionaries

d)

language converters

e)

translation program

11.

When did the first attempts to develop machine translation begin:

a)

in the 1970s

b)

in the 1950s

c)

in the 1980s

d)

in the 1990s

e)

in the 1960s

12.

Which of these computer translators have a Ukrainian translation module:

a)

Ruta

b)

Prompt

c)

Pragma

d)

Google Translate

e)

DeepL

13.

The forms of interaction of a computer translator and its users may be:

a)

post-editing

b)

micro-editing

c)

pre-editing

d)

inter-editing

e)

interactive translation

14.

Methods of computer translation are:

a)

direct

b)

conversion

c)

interlingua

d)

transfer

e)

AI deep learning

15.

The trade names of computer translators are:

a)

Pragma

b)

DeepL

c)

Lingvo

d)

Multitran

e)

Plaj

16.

What is necessary to create a translation memory?:

a)

>1 exact match

b)

source text

c)

target text

d)

dictionary entries

17.

The work with a TM tool usually begins with:

a)

scanning the documents

b)

creating a translation project

c)

choosing corresponding electronic translation dictionaries

d)

making an alignment file

e)

creating a glossary

18.

Mark what translation memory tools you have studied in the 1st semester:

a)

Dejavu

b)

Trados

c)

SmartCat

d)

WordFast

e)

Fluency

19.

What is is currently the most popular multifunctional computer translation tool, which significantly improves the productivity and quality of translation compared to other means and manual translation?: (2 words)

(a)  

20.

A translation memory tool works on the principle of:

a)

variant recognition

b)

accumulation

c)

matching

d)

checking all possibilities

e)

greater similarity

21.

The first translation memories were developed in the years:

a)

2000s

b)

1990s

c)

1960s

d)

1970s

e)

1980s

22.

Approximate match in a translation memory means:

a)

variant translation correspondence

b)

approximate translation variant

c)

from 30 to 90 percent accurate match

d)

from 30 to 90 percent inaccurate match

23.

The abbreviation for translation memory exchange format is:

(a)  

24.

What is an unconfirmed fragment in a translation memory?

a)

an untranslated fragment

b)

a fragment to be translated

c)

a translated fragment

d)

not entered into a TM

e)

a fragment in the process of translation

25.

Which of the following are usually used at the stage of reviewing a translation done:

a)

a statistics tool

b)

a speech-to-text program

c)

a translation quality assurance tool

d)

a scanner

e)

a text-to-speech program

26.

What do we call a CAT tool that combines a computer translator and a TM?

a)

tomCAT

b)

half-cast

c)

a TM system

d)

a combine

e)

a hybrid TM

27.

The following are changed by the translator in translating a localization project from American English into Ukrainian:

a)

figures

b)

addresses

c)

formatting

d)

dates

28.

TM tools are very efficient in translating:

a)

fiction texts

b)

short texts

c)

simple texts

d)

formatted texts

e)

long texts with many repetitions

29.

Compiling in a user’s dictionary-making process is:

a)

collecting a list of words

b)

finding translation equivalents of words

c)

converting into a computer language

d)

formatting a dictionary article

30.

Name a popular contextual online corpus translation dictionary. (1 or 2 words)

(a)  

31.

Terminology extraction programs help translators:

a)

to determine the meaning of terms

b)

to count the number of terms

c)

to make a list of terms

32.

Term mining in terminology management means:

a)

gathering relevant terms

b)

determining the meaning of a term

c)

make a word formation analysis of a term

d)

finding related terms

e)

determining the combinability of a term

33.

Terminology management software can:

a)

give definitions of terms

b)

help make term glossaries

c)

make a list of terms used in a ST

d)

calculate the number of terms in a ST

34.

In creating translation memories, the term “alignment” refers to:

a)

arranging objects one after another

b)

arranging sentences in a certain order

c)

matching sentences of the SL and TL in files as mutually translatable

d)

ordering sentences in a text

35.

Concordance is a result of:

a)

choosing phrases that are similar in meaning

b)

a set of sentences with one or several common word searched as arranged around a sought-for word

c)

several sentences related in meaning one to another

d)

concatenation of words of the same semantic group.

36.

The simplest method of audiovisual translation is:

a)

surtitling

b)

subtitling

c)

dubbing

d)

voice-over

e)

interpreting

37.

Match the terms used to denote the same phenomenon:

a)

audiovisual language transfer

b)

screen translation

c)

dubbing

d)

multimedia translation

e)

whisper interpreting

38.

Which of the following is not a type of corpus?

a)

monolingual

b)

bilingual

c)

multilingual

d)

comparable

e)

proportional

39.

Parallel corpora are

a)

corpora with parallelisms

b)

corpora with aligned source and target texts

c)

corpora with texts of identical length

d)

collection of texts published in the same year

e)

corpora with lineal translations

40.

There can be maximum ___ line(s) of subtitles in a movie frame (shot).

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

41.

Concordancer is used:

a)

to determine the structure of a word

b)

to hear the pronunciation of a word

c)

to correct wrong translations

d)

to see the combinability of a word with other words

e)

to count the number of a word occurrence in a text

42.

A fully automated process with minimal human intervention.

a)

Computer-assisted translation

b)

Computer-aided translation

c)

Machine translation

43.

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

a)

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

b)

They can be purchased.

c)

They are used to design rule-based machine translation engines

44.

An exact match is a match of ... %

a)

99

b)

99.9

c)

100

d)

99-100

45.

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

a)

quality

b)

price

c)

relevance to the new source text you are translating

d)

size

46.

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

a)

distance interpreting

b)

remote interpreting

c)

machine interpreting

47.

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

a)

spelling

b)

grammatical mistakes

c)

empty target segments

d)

inconsistent numbers between source and target

48.

The ... approach is a word-for-word machine translation approach.

(a)  

49.

The main target of CAI tools is to ...

a)

reduce cognitive loads on interpreters

b)

correct interpreter's mistakes

50.

Translation quality assurance software can check the correctness of translation of:

a)

common words

b)

idioms

c)

metaphors

d)

terms

e)

epithets

51.

If you want to have exact results of searching a word group in your browser, you must:

a)

write it two times in the search window

b)

write it with capital letters

c)

write it with a hyphen

d)

write in in inverted commas

52.

Internet boosted the development of:

a)

online dictionaries

b)

legal translation

c)

web localization industry

d)

higher schools for translators

53.

Translation quality assurance trade marks include:

a)

Roxima

b)

XBench

c)

QA distiller

d)

ErrorSpy

e)

ErrorFinder

54.

TQauditor differs from translation quality assurance software in that:

a)

it can check the translations of common words

b)

it has quality monitoring functions

c)

it reports the quality of the translator’s work

55.

Select only multimedia encyclopedias:

a)

Wikipedia

b)

Britannica

c)

Wiktionary

d)

Americannica

56.

How can you find the English spelling of the personal name Даг Хаммаршельд:

a)

by looking it up in translation dictionaries

b)

by reading who he is

c)

by looking it up in Wikipedia

d)

by using a transcription method

e)

by consulting specialists

57.

Concordancers are classified into:

a)

monolingual

b)

virtual

c)

stylistic

d)

parallel

e)

bilingual

58.

PDF files can be translated in:

a)

a WordPad text editor

b)

translation memory tool

c)

a Word editor

d)

a special PDF editor

e)

a browser

59.

Translationwise, many file formats can be easily dealt with by:

a)

a Microsoft word editor

b)

a Notepad editor

c)

a translation memory system

d)

a special translation program

e)

Deepl translator

60.

Automatic speech-to-speech interpreting can be done by:

a)

some pocket translators

b)

Google Translate

c)

DeepL translator

d)

specialized translation dictionaries

e)

hand-held translator

61.

Among interpreter-supporting tools dominate the following:

a)

text-to-speech programs

b)

audio amplifiers

c)

terminology management tools

d)

speaking dictionaries

e)

multimedia encyclopedias

62.

In a new translation industry area, the abbreviation l-10n stands for: (1 English word)

(a)  

63.

Innovative information and communication technologies, used in the translator’s activities, include:

a)

databases

b)

cognitive technologies

c)

intellectual data analysis

d)

expert systems

64.

Innovative translation technologies are a complex of up-to-date information and communication technologies which are designed to:

a)

change the form and content of information

b)

automate the translator’s work

c)

speed up the process of translation

d)

to increase the quality of translation

65.

The following technologies are involved in creating electronic dictionaries:

a)

data base

b)

expert system

c)

hypermedia

d)

search engine

e)

robotics

66.

The translation project documentation to support the translation process may include:

a)

project instructions

b)

payment method

c)

general translation guidelines

d)

checklists

e)

risk log

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