TRANSLATION AND
COMMUNICATION
Translating and
the Computer 6
Edited by
CATRIONA PICKEN
Proceedings of a conference… 20-21
November 1984
The Waldorf Hotel,
[
ISBN 0-85142-192-x
[Papers reproduced with
permission of Aslib]
CONTENTS
Catriona Picken
Session 1
Chairman: Geoffrey Kingscott
The
professional technical translator: new approaches to training
Birgit Rommel
The British Term Bank prototype:
user needs, modes of access, and co-operation in development
Lisa E.Price
Session 2
Chairman: Geoffrey Kingscott
International telecommunications
D.W.F.Medcraft
Peter Wheeler
Pamela Mayorcas-Cohen
Parallel Session I: Handling terminology
Chairman: Kees van der Horst
Patrick Sutton, Maud Fortune and John Scott
Parallel Session II: Translation aids: how
modern technology is changing translation practice for the small translation
unit
Chairman: Lanna Castellano
Brian McCluskey, Andy Evans and Nélida
Depiante
Parallel Session III: Machine translation
Chairman: Veronica Lawson
Selecting a
machine translation software vendor
Linn Hedwig Downs
John Hutchins, Monique L’Huillier and Brian
McCluskey
Session 4
Chairman: Barbara Wilson
Office
automation and the Teleglobe experience
Linda Crombie-Talhami
Robert Rooke
Christine Smith
Session 5: Product
forum
Chairman: Catriona Picken
David Beattie and
John Stowell
Session 6
Chairman: John Clews
Handling non-Roman character sets
with computers
Hugh McGregor Ross
World scripts (background paper)
John Clews
Automatic speech recognition:
fact or fantasy?
Raj Gunawardana
Session 7: Panel
discussion
Chairman: Barbara Snell
Pat Pailing and
Chris Atkinson