Prof. KE,
Department of English,
School of Foreign Studies,
EMAIL: kepingATnju.edu.cn
Course Website: http://nlp.nju.edu.cn/kep/TOC/LTT.html; http://keping.sprinterweb.net/TOC/LTT.html
Language and Translation Technology (LTT)
(1) Main
texts (required reading)
(3) LTT resources page on course
websites (any of the following)
Time: 10:10-12:00,
Tuesday, Spring semester. Venue: I-519, Xianlin Campus,
In this age of information, great challenges arise for linguists and translators. Designed for graduate students and honor undergraduate students specializing in Linguistics and Translation Studies, this course introduces technologies and technical tools linguists and translators use today in their practice. Students who take the course are expected to have computer literacy and the ability to work with the computer at an above elementary level.
The course consists of three foundation modules and three core modules. The foundation modules are:
(1) The setting-up, maintenance, and safety of a linguist/translator's personal computing environment
(2) Advanced uses of essential office applications (including the selection and advanced uses of web browsers and mail clients)
(3) Document organization
The core modules include:
(1) The Use of Computer Technology in Linguistic/Translation Practices & Research (an overview of the fields of computational linguistics, natural language processing [NLP], and corpus linguistics [CL], and of how technologies developed in these fields are applied to linguistic and translation study)
(2) Computer Translation (an introduction to the mechanisms and techniques of machine translation [MT] and computer-assisted translation [CAT], followed by a critical appraisal of some popular MT systems and CAT tools and a hands-on training on the use of several softwares for linguistic study and CAT)
(3) Terminology Management (a survey of major terminological tasks terminologists and translators have to wrestle with, and instruction on compiling bilingual/multilingual terminology databases [term banks] as well as using term banks and other reference sources to solve problems in translation)
Other modules that may be covered on an optional basis include:
Internet technologies
Software and website localization
■ to help students to stay in effective control of their personal computing environment and to improve their skills in using professional softwares to perform sophisticated tasks related to language and translation
■ to introduce students to the fundamentals of NLP and CL, assisting them in mastering necessary expertise and technical tools developed in these disciplines to do applied and research work in the fields of language and translation
■ to keep students informed of the principles and mechanisms of MT and CAT, helping them to form an educated opinion about major MT and CAT systems, and to give instruction in the use of CAT tools
■ to acquaint students with the principles of terminology management and to instruct in the skills of developing and using term banks as a translation tool, and
■ [optional] to impart basic knowledge of Internet technologies and multilingual language engineering
Austermühl, Frank. (2001). Electronic tools for translators. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Publishing. 192 pp. [ISBN: 1900650347. KP. TOC]
Kennedy, Graeme. (2000). An introduction to corpus linguistics (顾曰国导读). 北京：外语教学与研究出版社. 320 pp. [KP-Pdf file available]
Quah, C.K. (2008). Translation and technology (《翻译与技术》). “外教社翻译硕士专业系列教材” 笔译实践指南丛书. 上海: 上海外语教育出版社. 221 pp. (Original work [Translation and technology. Palgrave Textbooks in Translating and Interpreting. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.] published 2006) [TOC: http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20379028]
See the "LTT:
Recommended Reading (KP)." page on the Course Supporting
Website.
http://nlp.nju.edu.cn/kep/TOC/LTT-R.html
http://keping.sprinterweb.net/TOC/LTT-R.html
Two classroom contact hours per week. A combination of lectures and onscreen presentations. The core modules and foundation modules will be taught concurrently, with most class sessions covering content from both the two modules.
Students are to complete take-home assignments and projects on their personal computers.
This is a performance course. The assessment will be based on:
(1) class attendance and contribution to the course (responding to questions, raising good questions or suggestions, active participating in class discussions, finding and sharing quality learning resources, etc.) (20%);
(2) presentations on in-class and home assignments (hands-on operations, required reading, mini-research tasks, etc.) (30%);
(3) end-of-semester research project (must be informed by course content) or final examination (50%).
The research project is to be completed by students in groups of three to six members. The division of labor among the group members and the contributions of each group member to the project must be clearly delineated in a research report which each student completes on an individual basis. All research groups may be requested by the instructor to present their project to the class on a collective basis. Typical project topics include the following:
■ a study of the advanced application of professional computer softwares (eg. MS Office suite) in linguistic/translation practices or research
■ a solution to some theoretical or practical problem in natural language processing (NLP) [computer analysis, understanding, manipulation, and generation of natural language]
■ a task of applying NLP or corpus linguistic knowledge to the study of language, translation, or literature
■ a study of computer translation, either machine translation (MT) or computer-aided translation (CAT)
■ an annotated computer translation task
■ the creation of a computerized term bank and a study of the related problems in computer terminology management
■ the construction of a website with a focus on linguistic/translation practice or research (must include sufficient content created by the students themselves and be accessible online [a valid URL of the website should be provided in the research report of each member of the group as well as in the group’s collective project presentation file])
■ a study or task of localization [process of translating software user interfaces or websites from one language to another]
At the end of the semester, each student should submit to the instructor a computer printout of the research report he or she has completed. The research report is to report on the project from each student’s own perspective (including the background, design, and implementation of the project; major research findings and their implications; the role he or she played in the process of researching the project, etc.).
Each research group should save its project presentation file (usually a MS PowerPoint or MS Word document) and all its linked media files (graphics, videos, audios, etc.) and resource files (software installation packages, dynamic linked libraries, etc.) in a folder on a USB disk and be ready to copy (upon request) the folder to the instructor’s computer. To avoid too bulky project presentation packages, please be watchful of the size of linked media and resource files included in the project folder. Do downsize multimedia files and see to it that a graphic file is usually no more than 100 Kb in size and the overall size of all video and audio files used in one project does not exceed 20Mb. Whenever possible, stay away from resource files bigger than 10 Mb.
(Page updated: June, 2004; August, 2007; July, 2010; June, 2012; August, 2014; June, 2015, July, 2016, March, 2018)
南京大学外国语学院英语系研究生课程
课程时间：春季学期周二10:10-12:00
地点：南京大学仙林校区I-519
教师：
050201D30
本课程为语言学和翻译研究方向的硕士与博士研究生开设，主要介绍语言和翻译工作者在专业实践与研究中所使用的多种技术与工具，帮助学生适应信息化社会对他们专业知识提出的挑战。修课者需具备一定的计算机基础及入门水平以上的计算机使用能力。
课程由三个基础模块和三个核心模块组成。基础模块为：
(1) 语言和翻译工作者个人计算环境的设置、维护和安全
(2) 基本办公软件的高级使用（包括网络浏览器和邮件客户端软件的选择与高级使用）
(3) 文件组织与管理
核心模块为：
(1) 计算技术在语言和翻译实践与研究领域中的运用（将计算语言学的相关研究成果及自然语言处理和语料库语言学领域的相关技术应用于语言和翻译领域中的实践与研究）
(2) 计算机翻译（机器翻译和计算机辅助翻译的机制与技术；对一些常用机器翻译系统和计算机辅助翻译工具的评估；与语言研究和计算机辅助翻译相关的软件使用等）
(3) 术语管理（术语和翻译工作者在术语管理方面须做的工作；双语或多语术语库的研制；利用机读术语库和其它数字参考资源解决翻译中的问题等）
视时间充足与否，课程还可能包括因特网技术和软件及网站本地化等可选内容。
■ 帮助学生建立并有效掌控自己的个人计算环境，培养他们使用专业软件完成语言和翻译相关任务的高阶技能
■ 令学生掌握自然语言处理和语料库语言学的基本原理，并学会用这些领域里的专门知识和技术工具从事语言和翻译的实践与研究
■ 使学生通晓机器翻译和计算机辅助翻译的原理和机制，对主要的机译和机助翻译系统有专业化的认识，并至少学会使用一种机辅翻译工具
■ 让学生了解计算机术语管理的原理，并掌握创建和使用作为翻译工具的机读术语库的技巧
■ [可选内容] 介绍因特网技术和多语种语言工程的基本知识
每周授课两小时，讲课与课堂演示相结合。核心模块和基础模块内容的教授同步进行。学生课后须在个人计算机或学校计算中心的机器上完成课后作业与研究项目。
Austermühl, Frank. (2001). Electronic tools for translators. Manchester, UK: St. Jerome Publishing. 192 pp. [ISBN: 1900650347. KP. TOC]
Kennedy, Graeme. (2000). An introduction to corpus linguistics (顾曰国导读). 北京：外语教学与研究出版社. 320 pp. [KP-Pdf file available]
Quah, C.K. (2008). Translation and technology (《翻译与技术》). “外教社翻译硕士专业系列教材” 笔译实践指南丛书. 上海: 上海外语教育出版社. 221 pp. (Original work [Translation and technology. Palgrave Textbooks in Translating and Interpreting. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.] published 2006) [TOC: http://product.dangdang.com/product.aspx?product_id=20379028]
见课程支持网站（Ke Ping’s Site）上的“LTT: Recommended Reading”网页。
见课程支持网站（Ke Ping’s Site）上的LTT资源网页（点击以下任何一个链接均可）。
http://nlp.nju.edu.cn/kep/TOC/LTT-R.html
http://keping.sprinterweb.net/TOC/LTT-R.html
课程学习成绩评定参照以下几方面进行：
(1) 出勤和对课程的贡献（主动提问和答问、完成课堂练习、参加课堂讨论、寻找与分享优质学习资源等）(20%)；
(2) 课堂与课后作业（机上操作、指定阅读、小型研究任务等）完成情况 (30%)；
(3) 期末研究项目（重点考察学习者发现与解决实际问题的能力）或期末考试（重点考察学习者掌握课堂讲授与主要教材中重要内容的情况）得分 (50%)。
期末研究项目由同学自行组成研究小组（每组成员3-6人）合作完成。各研究小组的每个成员需单独完成自己的项目研究报告。在时间允许的情况下，教师将指定各研究小组集体向全班演示本组完成的研究项目。各研究小组应从课程模块里选题。典型的研究选题包括：
■ 探索专业计算机软件（如微软的Office办公组件）在语言／翻译实践或研究中的高级应用
■ 解决自然语言处理中某个理论或应用问题
■ 完成将自然语言处理或语料库语言学知识应用于语言、翻译或文学研究的某项任务
■ 对机器自动翻译或机器辅助翻译的某个方面进行研究
■ 用计算机程序翻译某一文本，并对翻译过程与翻译结果进行分析
■ 创建一个机读术语库，并研究与之相关的计算机术语管理问题
■ 建立一个语言或翻译研究网站（上面必须有足量的自创内容，并真实上网 [个人研究报告与集体演示文件中须提供该网站的有效网址]）
■ 研究或完成一项软件或网站本地化任务
学期末了时，每个同学须将自己研究报告的打印稿提交给任课教师。每个同学的研究报告应陈述本组整个研究项目的背景、目标、设计、实施过程、研究发现及意义，但重点是从本人参与的角度清楚地报告自己在项目中担任的具体工作，完成这些工作的方法、过程、最终结果及对结果的分析小结。
各研究小组须将本组所完成的研究项目的集体演示文件（一般为MS PowerPoint 或 MS Word 文档）及其中链接的所有媒体文件（图片、视频、音频等）与资源文件（计算机软件安装包、计算机程序的动态链接库等）单独保存在自己优盘上的一个文件夹里，并随时准备将此文件夹拷贝到授课教师的计算机上备检。为避免项目报告文件夹过大，请各小组控制链接媒体文件与资源文件的体积，具体做法为缩小多媒体文件的尺寸，使每张图片的大小不超过100 Kb，全部视频或音频文件的大小不超过20 Mb；尽量不选用大小超过10 Mb的资源文件等。
(修订：2004年6月；2007年8月；2010年7月；2012年6月；2014年8月；2015年6月；2016年7月；2018年3月)