The Application Of CAT Technology To The Translation Of Law-Popularizing Books-Report On The Abridged Translation Of Street Law:A Course In Practical Law

As a valuable way to spread legal ideas and knowledge, law-popularizing books boast the features of being technical and easy-to-read. The subject matter determines that it must contain numerous and repetitive terms. Being easy to read means it has complex layout. CAT technology is developed from many other technologies and has integrated inputting and outputting technologies, database technologies and searching technologies. The three types of technologies can improve translation in speed, quality and efficiency respectively.As to speed, inputting and outputting technologies can increase the translation speed by providing translators with easier and faster layout preservation and format transformation, with more convenient editing and friendly translating workbench and with more flexible interchangeability of data produced by different software. Speed can also be increased by online translation, which can provide translators with ready-to-use terms and sentences for reference.As to quality, database technologies can improve the translation quality from the perspective of both terms and sentences. On one hand, terms quality can be ensured by employing term base and by Quality Assurance(QA) check, through which inconsistency of terms, missing terms and mismatches of numbers can all be resolved. On the other hand, sentence quality can be greatly improved by building high-quality translation memory and corpora. The improvement of the translation quality of terms is the most prominent advantage.As to the efficiency, searching technologies can raise both the translation quality and speed. Searching technologies consist of two subtypes: workbench-based search and Internet-based search. Workbench-based search mainly refers to the automatic search against translation memory and term base and the manual search of corpora while the Internet-based search focuses on the use of search engines. Many extremely useful techniques such as inducing words and deep search can be adopted to find exactly what you need.