Language Services Industry 华豫江 John Hua

What is the language-services industry? The language industry is the sector of activity dedicated to designing, producing, and marketing tools, products, or services related to computerized language processing. It is a part of the information technology industry, but also draws upon the fields of linguistics, lexicography( 辞典编撰）, software engineering, artificial intelligence, and interface design （界面 设计）.

The development of this industry Traditional (since mankind started developing trade millennia ago )trade Modern language industry (following availability of the internet)internet There are language industry companies of different sizes; none of them is dominant in the world market so far.

The scope of the industry Translation and Interpretation Editing, reviewing, proofreading (including CAR) CAT tools Terminology extraction Localization (language and software) Machine translation

1.Translation and Interpretation Translation is the communication of the meaning of a source-language text by means of an equivalent target- language text.meaningsource-languageequivalenttarget- language Language interpretation is the facilitating of oral or sign-language communication, either simultaneously or consecutively, between users of different languages.

2.Editing, reviewing, proofreading (including CAR) Proofreading is the reading of a galley proof or computer monitor to detect and correct production-errors of text or art. Proofreaders are expected to be consistently accurate by default because they occupy the last stage of typographic production before publication. Computer-assisted reviewing (CAR) tools are pieces of software based on text-comparison and analysis algorithms. These tools focus on the differences between two documents, taking into account each document's typeface through an intelligent analysis.

3.CAT tools Computer-assisted translation, computer- aided translation, or CAT is a form of language translation in which a human translator uses computer software to support and facilitate the translation process.

4.Term extraction Terminology mining, term extraction, term recognition, or glossary extraction, is a subtask of information extraction. The goal of terminology extraction is to automatically extract relevant terms from a given corpus.information extractioncorpus

5.Localization (language and software) Language localization is the second phase of a larger process of product translation and cultural adaptation (for specific countries, regions or groups) to account for differences in distinct markets, a process known as internationalization and localization. In computing, internationalization and localization are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market.

6. Machine translation Machine translation, sometimes referred to by the abbreviation MT is a sub-field of computational linguistics that investigates the use of software to translate text or speech from one natural language to another.

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