TransCheck - or the automatic validation of human translations
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Translators, like all people who draft a lot of texts, will commonly run a spelling or style checker on their translations before delivering them, in the hope of detecting simple kinds of errors they may have overlooked. Because these writing aids are monolingual, however, they are entirely useless in detecting even the most flagrant kinds of translation errors, since these are bilingual in nature and depend on relations between two texts in different languages. This paper will describe a novel kind of writing aid called TransCheck that is specifically designed to detect such errors.
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