关键词: 图书翻译; 计算机辅助翻译; 机器翻译; 译后编辑能力; 学生译者; 师生协同翻译; 翻译教育

Abstract:

In the era of artificial intelligence (AI), the rapid development of machine translation technology has had a tremendous impact on language service industry and on translation education, in which the cultivation of students’ post-editing competence has become an important aspect. The present gap between the huge demand for professional post-editors in the language service market and the shortage of such professionals has raised the question of how to design an innovative training model and produce qualified post-editors who meet the market demand. This paper explores a new training model for post-editing competence driven by book translation projects and based on the “CAT+MT+PE” collaborative translation between teachers and students, and introduces and discusses its connotations, teaching design, implementation steps, and effects. To address the possible problems of book translation resources, pre-translation training costs, translation production platforms, project management risks, and other challenges in this model, we propose corresponding countermeasures and suggestions in the hope of sharing our doings and findings with other MTI educational institutions in China.

Keywords: book translation; computer-aided translation; machine translation; post-editing competence; student translator; collaborative teacher-student translation; translation education