FPF:UCJAJNP032 Translator Resources and Tools - Course Information
UCJAJNP032 Translator Resources and Tools
Faculty of Philosophy and Science in OpavaSummer 2022
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Teacher(s)
- Mgr. Pavel Heisig, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
- Guaranteed by
- Mgr. Pavel Heisig, Ph.D.
Institute of Foreign Languages – Faculty of Philosophy and Science in Opava - Timetable of Seminar Groups
- UCJAJNP032/A: No timetable has been entered into IS.
- Prerequisites
- Basic computer skills
- Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- English language (programme FPF, AJnp)
- Course objectives
- On successful completion of the class, students will have been introduced to techniques and good practices promoting efficient translation process. The class’s primary objective is to outline and explain the principles and methods hidden behind translation software packages, which if applied correctly, allow translators to achieve and maintain overall quality and consistency of target texts. Students will have also been pointed to specialised associations of experts in the field and encouraged to learn more independently. Students shall be required to work on their own project portfolio that will be assessed towards the end of semester.
- Learning outcomes
- Students will acquire the following skills: - ability to operate TM-based software tools and understanding the underlying principles
- Syllabus
- 1. Introduction - Tools of the Trade 2. Capturing Data in Electronic Form 3. Associations and Ethics for Translators 4. Machine Translation Systems 5. Translation Memory Systems 6. Terminology Management Systems 7. Corpus Analysis Software 8. Regular Expressions and Wildcards 9. Parallel Corpora and Corpus Data Analyses 10. Parallel Concordancing and QA Features 11. Quality Assurance 12. Managing Translation Projects 13. Final discussion and presentations.
- Teaching methods
- Students will work with their computers.
- Assessment methods
- The project portfolio and a short test (basic concepts)
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Enrolment Statistics (Summer 2022, recent)
- Permalink: https://is.slu.cz/course/fpf/summer2022/UCJAJNP032