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TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGIES I COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
IMT203 TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGIES I 3 3 3 6

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY

Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 - Evolution of translation technologies; overview of CAT tools, translation memories, machine translation, artificial intelligence, and the changing role of translators in technology-rich environments. -
2 - Concepts of terminology, terminology databases, terminology research methods, and terminology management for professional translation practice. -
3 - Principles of translation memories, exact and fuzzy matches, concordance searching, translation memory maintenance, and productivity benefits of TM systems. -
4 - Translation workflows within CAT environments, project creation, file preparation, segmentation, terminology integration, quality assurance, and file export procedures -
5 - Combining translation memories, termbases, and CAT tools to improve translation quality, consistency, and productivity -
6 - Introduction to corpora, parallel and comparable corpora, concordancing, collocation analysis, and corpus-based translation decision-making -
7 - MIDTERM -
8 - Light and full post-editing, standards, editing strategies, quality improvement, and post- editing workflows. -
9 - Generative AI, prompt engineering, AI-assisted translation, evaluation of AI outputs, responsible AI use in translation -
10 - MID-TERM EXAM -
11 - REVIEW -
12 - FINAL EXAM -
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -