Translation Analysis and Translation Automation

@inproceedings{Isabelle1993TranslationAA,
  title={Translation Analysis and Translation Automation},
  author={Pierre Isabelle and Marc Dymetman and George F. Foster and Jean-Marc Jutras and Elliott Macklovitch and François Perrault and Xiaobo Ren and Michel Simard},
  booktitle={Conference on Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Machine Translation of Natural Languages},
  year={1993},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:15306137}
}
It is shown that pre-existing translations can be analyzed into a structured translation memory and described the TransSearch bilingual concordancing system, which allows translators to harness such a memory.
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