Post-Translation Editing of Scientific and Technology Texts under Chesterman’s Translation Norm
- 1 School of Arts and Sciences, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, China
- 2 School of Arts and Sciences, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, China
- 3 School of Arts and Sciences, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, China
- 4 School of Arts and Sciences, Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, Xi’an, China
Abstract
The development of science and technology brings about the alternating progress of technique in all the industries. Machine translation has attracted the attention and the discussion among the whole translation industry. From the discussion on the quality of the translation produced by machines to the debate on whether machines can completely replace human’s role in translation activities. The author believes that post-translation editing can make up for the shortcomings of machine translation under the mode of “human-computer interaction”. This paper, from the perspective of Chesterman’s translation norms, explores the positive role of post-translation editing in scientific and technology text translation through the “human-computer interaction” in effectively improving the translation’s quality, in the current wave of scientific and technological development. The author will give some focuses for the post-translation editing of the Scientific and technology texts from the perspective of Chesterman’s translation norms in this paper. It aims to improve the translation quality of the Scientific and technology texts to the greatest extent with the aid of machine translation.
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