Jingsong Shawn Yu, Yazhi Yao

Gebundenes Buch

Principles and Practice of Translation Technology

Beschreibung

The advent of deep neural networks in recent years has led to enormous advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology, with machine translation, speech recognition, and human-machine dialogue systems leading the way, and has revolutionized the language services industry. At the same time, a number of questions have arisen: What is the value of learning translation and interpreting? How will the language services profession be impacted by AI? Will human translators be replaced by machines? This book offers the best possible answers to these questions. Beginning with the fundamentals of machine learning and natural language processing, the key to understanding translation technology, it then examines methods to search and utilize various online resources, including specialized tools, like corpus analysis tools, to enable individual translators and language services providers to improve their efficiency and quality. It also discusses the use of the latest computer technologies to improve translation teaching and research. Written by authors with multidisciplinary backgrounds, this book covers a range of topics, enabling readers to not only grasp the fundamental principles of various personal and company-wide computer tools and how to use them, but also keep abreast of technological changes in the future. 

Autor

Jingsong Shawn YU is an Associate Professor at Peking University. He received his B.S. in Optical and Scientific Instruments Engineering from Zhejiang University, his first master's degree in Information Management from Peking University, his second Master's degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh as and his PhD degree in Natural Language Processing from the Department of Information Management, Peking University. He created the first master's degree program in CAT in Mainland China. He has been serving as Associate Dean of the Department of Digital Media and Technical Communication at Peking University's School of Software and Microelectronics 2005, and has offered multiple courses on information technology for postgraduates there. His work focuses on information retrieval/search engines, natural language processing, machine translation/computer-aided translation, and adaptive language learning technologies.  Yazhi YAO is an Associate Professor at the School of Languages and Communication Studies, Beijing Jiaotong University and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Digital Media and Technical Communication at the School of Software and Microelectronics, Peking University. She obtained her B.A. degree in English Language and Literature from the School of Foreign Languages at Shandong University in 1996 and her master's degree on the same subject from the English Department of the Institute of International Relations in 1998. She is the author of 20 academic papers on translation and the language services industry, and the translator/co-translator of about 10 published books on subjects as diverse as railway engineering, human resources management and literature. She has taught multiple undergraduate and postgraduate courses on translation, including computer-aided translation and interpretation. She had been working as a freelance translator for the China Railway Publishing House and China Translation Corporation for ten years, translating railway engineering documents as well as documents produced by the United Nations. She has been a senior translator and editor for Urban Rail Transit, a journal sponsored by Beijing Jiaotong University. Her area of interest is translation studies and the language services industry. 

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 89023597
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789819546312
• ISBN-10: 9819546311
• Artikelnr.: 75636799