索莫斯所著的《计算机与翻译：译者指南》的主题是计算机与翻译，但我们探讨的不单纯是计算机技术或者翻译理论。在计算机对于译者以及其他专业语言工作者产生强大冲击和影响的今天，我们尝试以实际范例，而非深奥的理论，来厘清并解释机器翻译(MT)、计算机辅助翻译(CAT)、译者的计算机资源、计算机与翻译的今昔与未来等种种问题，为读者提供一本实用的参考书。

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List of contributors

CHAPTER 1

Introduction

 Harold Somers

CHAPTER 2

The translator's workstation

 Harold Somers

CHAPTER 3

Translation memory systems

 Harold Somers

CHAPTER 4

Terminology tools for translators

 Lynne Bowker

CHAPTER 5

Localisation and translation

 Bert Esselink

CHAPTER 6

Translation technologies and minority languages

 Harold Somers

CHAPTER 7

Corpora and the translator

 Sara Laviosa

CHAPTER 8

Why translation is difficult for computers

 DouR Arnold

CHAPTER 9

The relevance of linguistics for machine translation

 Paul Bennett

CHAPTER 10

Commercial systems: The state of the art

 John Hutchins

CHAPTER 11

Inside commercial machine translation

 Scott Bennett and Laurie Gerber

CHAPTER 12

Going live on the intemet

 Jin Yang and Elke Lange

CHAPTER 13

How to evaluate machine translation

 John S. White

CHAPTER 14

Controlled language for authoring and translation

 Eric Nyberg, Teruko Mitamura and Willem-Olaf Huijsen

CHAPTER 15

Sublanguage

 Harold Sorners

CHAPTER 16

Post-editing

Jeffrey Allen

CHAPTER 17

Machine translation in the classroom

 Harold Somers

Index