Tài liệu Opportunities in technical writing careers part 15 pdf

and this subfield of technical communications should grow rapidly.

Machine translation is an exciting employment possibility for trans￾lators—those people gifted in more than one language and with

the ability to write well.

You may be more familiar with CAT, computer-aided transla￾tion. To aid in the usage of CAT, companies are approaching trans￾lation in stages. First a glossary, or vocabulary, of the most common

technical terms used by that company for foreign translation is

drawn up for the translators as well as for other writers. This glos￾sary is entered into the database, followed by, for example, a page

of a manual. This is pre-edited and then applied to the glossary.

Words in the original piece of work are now transformed by the

glossary, or glossarized, and the piece of writing is returned to the

translator for its completion and final editing. Of course, this is an

oversimplification of the process, but it may provide you with some

idea of what is meant by CAT and machine translation. This devel￾opment is by no means foolproof, but it does show the direction

translation efforts are taking.

Systems of oral dictation to the computer also are being devel￾oped for translation purposes. Eventually, words spoken in one lan￾guage may be computer processed and translated into another.

Computer Documentation

Computers are certainly no longer novel, but their increased use in

every area has presented a challenge for the technical writer to pro￾duce clear and usable computer-related documents. Lack of ade￾quate documentation, that is, the written form of all the available

information about a particular computer, computer program, or set

of programs, is a major problem in modern industry. Documenta￾Related Fields and Growing Trends 131