The Role of Computers Skills in the Formation of Modern Translator's Professional Competence

TRANSLATION TOOLS

- Machine Translation -
Performs simple substitution of words in one language for words in another, but that alone usually cannot produce a good translation of a text because recognition of whole phrases and their closest counterpart in the target language is needed.

- Computer Assisted Translation -
Is a form of language translation in which a human translator uses computer software to support and facilitate the translation process.

Terminology Management Systems

- It allow translators to create and maintain a personal database of terminology, which is referred to as a "termbase", which means that is a custom-designed repository for consolidating and storing terminological information. There's a lot of benefits of using TMS-systems.

Localization Software

- Involves making the product linguistically and culturally apropiated for a target country.

- Stands for combination of language and technology in order to produce a product.