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Translation and information technology: The Translator's Workbench1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 December 2008

Khurshid Ahmad  and
Margaret Rogers
Khurshid Ahmad
Affiliation:
University of Surrey, GuildfordUK
Margaret Rogers
Affiliation:
University of Surrey, GuildfordUK
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In the world of the 1990s, linguistic and traditional discipline boundaries are breaking down. Consequently, many companies and organisations are faced with considerable communication problems, including a growing need for translation. It has recently been estimated, for instance, that the number of pages translated in Western Europe in 1986 was 100 million; by 1987 this was said to have increased to 160 million. A number of factors have contributed to this growth in demand. Product cycles are shorter, requiring more frequent updating of documentation; documentation has become more complex, concomitant with the increasing complexity of technology; companies have begun to realise that multilingual markets are generally bigger than monolingual ones; and large companies are themselves often transnational.

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Research Article
Information
ReCALL , Volume 4 , Issue 6 , May 1992 , pp. 3 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © European Association for Computer Assisted Language Learning 1992

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