translation
Let an agent handle translation by language pair, type, quality, certification and tools, and support accurate, culturally aware translation.
Research draft, second pass
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Purpose and description
Let an agent handle translation by language pair, type, quality, certification and tools, and support accurate, culturally aware translation.
The communication of the meaning of a text from a source language into a target language, by human translators, machine translation or both; related to interpreting of speech, localisation and certified or sworn translation for official use.
What it is for: Communication across languages.
It can be choose human, machine or post-edited translation; find certified or sworn translators; check translation quality; localise content culturally.
Distinguishing features
Transfers meaning across languages
Human and machine methods
Quality varies
Official uses need certification
What it looks like
Texts in two or more languages; translation tools and memories.
How it is recognised
Source and target languages
Certified translation stamps
Interpreting is spoken rather than written
Related models
is a kind of - category
is performed by - professional
is related to - spoken counterpart
uses - tool
In practice
Families and kinds
literary translation
technical and legal translation
certified and sworn translation
machine translation
localisation
Standards and regulation
ISO 17100 translation services
ISO 18587 post-editing of machine translation
Rules for sworn translators
Failure modes and hazards
Mistranslation in legal or medical documents
Unreviewed machine translation
Cultural insensitivity
Also called
+129
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Also registered as vr.tr.translation-act
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Task What to translate.
Purpose decides method.
Pair
Languages.
Pair
Language pair.
- Which source and target languages and varieties are needed? definition
- Who is the audience? definition
Method
Human or machine.
Method
Method.
- Is human, machine or post-edited translation appropriate here? action
- What are the risks of each? boundary
Official Certification.
Official uses need certification.
Certified
Sworn translation.
Certified
Certified translation.
- Does the receiving authority require a certified or sworn translation? provenance
- How can a qualified translator be found? action
High risk
Legal and medical.
High risk
High-risk documents.
- Is this a legal or medical text where errors could cause harm? boundary
- Should a professional review it? action
Quality Checking.
Quality must be checked.
Review
Revision.
Review
Quality review.
- How can the translation be reviewed for accuracy? action
- Which standard applies? provenance
Terminology
Consistency.
Terminology
Terminology.
- Which glossary or term base should be used? provenance
- Are terms consistent? boundary
Culture Localisation.
Meaning depends on culture.
Localise
Adaptation.
Localise
Localisation.
- Which cultural adaptations are needed? action
- Are idioms and units adapted? boundary
Interpreting
Spoken.
Interpreting
Interpreting.
- Is spoken interpreting needed instead, and which mode? boundary
- How can a qualified interpreter be booked? action
What the second pass must settle
- Should translation types be separate entries?
- How should translator registers be linked?
- How should language pairs be modelled?