TRST 408

Fall 2014 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 25-Dec 10

Translation Tools & Practice

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

An advanced tools course that provides familiarity with a range of CAT tools and also localization software. Combines the most up-to-date theoretical studies on translation/localization practices with hands-on activities aimed at having students understand and reflect, by using the tools, on the language, culture- and content-bound issues that translation professionals face when adapting content from an L1 to an L2 culture. Standard industry tolls will be used in class and for assignments. The class will be structured into three main units: Corpus Generation, Website/Software Localization and Machine Translation.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours.

Students must be enrolled in the MA in Translation and Interpreting or in the program in Translation Studies (certificate or planned minor).

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TRST 408 class schedule data for fall 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	62384	Lecture-Discussion	G4	3:00PM -5:20PM	W	Foreign Languages Building	McCoy, E Wang, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 4 hours Section Info: This is an advanced tools course that focuses on in-depth familiarity with a range of CAT tools and also localization software. It combines the most up-to-date theoretical studies on translation/localization practices with hands-on activities aimed at having students understand and reflect, by using the tools, on the language-, culture- and content-bound issues that translation professionals face when adapting content from an L1 to an L2 culture. Among the tools that will be used in class and for assignments are WinAlign & Paraconc (Alignment tools), AntConc & SCP (Simple Concordance Program) (Concordance tool), SDL Trados Studio & MemoQ (TM creation & Translation), MultiTerm Extract & Multiterm (Terminology mining), SDL Passolo (Software localization), and Systran & Google Translate (Machine Translation). The class will be structured into three main units: Corpus Generation, Website/Software Localization and Machine Translation. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	62381	Lecture-Discussion	U3	3:00PM -5:20PM	W	Foreign Languages Building	McCoy, E Wang, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This is an advanced tools course that focuses on in-depth familiarity with a range of CAT tools and also localization software. It combines the most up-to-date theoretical studies on translation/localization practices with hands-on activities aimed at having students understand and reflect, by using the tools, on the language-, culture- and content-bound issues that translation professionals face when adapting content from an L1 to an L2 culture. Among the tools that will be used in class and for assignments are WinAlign & Paraconc (Alignment tools), AntConc & SCP (Simple Concordance Program) (Concordance tool), SDL Trados Studio & MemoQ (TM creation & Translation), MultiTerm Extract & Multiterm (Terminology mining), SDL Passolo (Software localization), and Systran & Google Translate (Machine Translation). The class will be structured into three main units: Corpus Generation, Website/Software Localization and Machine Translation. Restriction(s): Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.