The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the dynamically evolving relationship between translation and technology.This is an essential reference and resource for those studying and researching translation and technology.

Minako O'Hagan, PhD, is the Discipline Convenor for Translation Studies at the School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics at the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She specializes in applied translation studies with a technology-focus, including game localization and non-professional translation. Her publications include the co-authored Game Localization (2013). Her current research interest lies in exploring the nexus of human and machine in translation.

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List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Chapters

1. Introduction: Translation and technology: disruptive entanglement of human and machine



Part I: Translation and Technology: Defining Underlying technology - Present and Future



2. Standards for the language, translation, and localization industry Sue Ellen Wright



3. XML for translation technology Johann Rotourier



4. Terminology extraction and management Kyo Kageura and Elizabeth Marsham



5. Building and using parallel text for translation Michel Simard



6. Speech recognition and synthesis technologies in the translation workflow Dragö Ciobanu and Alina Secar¿



Part II: Translation and Technology: Users' Perspectives



7. Multinational language service provider as a technology user Bert Esselink



8. Applications of technology in the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) Translation Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Colm Caffrey and Cristina Valentini



9. Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) translation service provider as a technology user: Translation in New Zealand Patrick King



10. Freelance Translators' Perspectives Jost Zetzsche



11. Language learners and non-professional translators as users Masaru Yamada



Part III: Translation and Technology: Application in a Specific Context - Shaping Practice



12. Technology, technical translation and localization Debbie Folaron



13. Technology and game localization: translation behind the screens Nathan Altice



14. Technology and non-professional translation Miguel A. Jiménez-Crespo



15. Technological advances in audiovisual translation Jorge Díaz Cintas and Serenella Massidda



16. Technology and interpreting Sabine Braun



17. Technology and sign language interpreting Peter Llewellyn- Jones



18. Translation technology and disaster management Sharon O'Brien



19. Post-editing of Machine Translation Lucas Nunes Vieira



Part IV: Translation and Technology: Research Foci and Methodologies



20. Translation technology evaluation research Stephen Doherty



21. Translation workplace-based research Maureen Ehrensberger- Dow and Gary Massey



22. Translation technology research and human-computer interaction Samuel Läubli and Spence Green



23. Sociological approaches to technology Maeve Olohan



24. Translation technology research with eye tracking Arnt Lykke Jakobsen



Part V: Translation and Technology: Overarching Issues



25. Future of Machine Translation: musings on Weaver's memo Alan K. Melby