Computer-assisted preparation in conference interpreting
Computer-assisted preparation in conference interpreting
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会议口译中的计算机辅助准备
DOI：
10.12807/ti.109202.2017.a02
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2017
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Claudio Fantinuoli
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作者：
Claudio Fantinuoli
在文献中，准备被认为是口译作业中最重要的阶段之一，特别是当口译主题高度专业化的时候。提前准备任务的目的是弥合与会者和口译员之间的语言和语言外的差距，减少口译过程中的认知负担。出于这些原因，它被认为是确保更高口译质量的关键。然而，准备工作通常很耗时，口译员可能经常感到不知道如何有效地执行这项任务。信息技术可能会改变这一点。尽管近年来第一个计算机辅助口译软件已经进入这一行业，但还没有专门开发出工具来满足口译员在准备阶段的需要。在分析了口译准备的不同理论框架后，本文旨在提出一种实现语料库驱动的口译准备方法的工具。根据这一办法，通过使口译员以语料库为导向，优化了口译员所需的知识和语言习得过程：在专门的语料库中浏览该领域的术语，口译员能够重建其概念结构，编写与主题有关的词汇，并使准备工作合理化。
Preparation has been proposed in the literature as one of the most important phases of an interpreting assignment, especially if the subject is highly specialised. Preparing an assignment in advance aims at bridging the linguistic and extra-linguistic gap between conference participants and interpreters and at reducing the cognitive load during interpretation. For these reasons it is considered crucial in ensuring higher interpreting quality. Yet, preparation is generally time-consuming and interpreters may often experience the feeling of not knowing exactly how to perform this task efficiently. Information technology could change this. Even though the first computer-assisted interpreting software has entered the profession in recent years, no tool has been specifically developed to satisfy the needs of interpreters during the preparatory phase. After analysing different theoretical frameworks of interpreting preparation, this paper aims at presenting a tool that implements a corpus-driven approach to preparation. According to this approach, the process of knowledge and language acquisition needed to perform well as an interpreter is optimized by making it corpus-driven: browsing the terminology of the domain in a specialised corpus, interpreters are able to reconstruct its conceptual structure, prepare subject-related glossaries and rationalise the preparatory work.