Portuguese-Chinese Machine Aided Translation System

Traditionally, all the translation work is done by individual translators separately. If they want to share translation expertise to the others, since all the translation knowledge and vocabulary are stored in their own computers, these can only be used by one-off user. Moreover, as the number of documents to be translated increases a lot nowadays, the translation task becomes impractical without the support of computer aided translation tools. As a result, the use of these tools, and their integration in the translation cycle has been one of the hottest topics in the translation community. Due to the fast development of computer technologies, networking technologies, and the fruitful results obtained from the research of Machine Translation (MT) field, computer aided translation systems are no more than that compared with the simple tools. Sophisticated translation systems may be implemented to use different MT technologies and engines, and they are able to run on different working environments and infrastructures. In this paper, a computer aided translation system based on multiple translation engines, including MT and Translation Memory, with a focus on the languages of Portuguese and Chinese is presented. Moreover, the architecture of the system is based on a Client-Server model and it has a centralized knowledge base for better management. The Portuguese-Chinese Translation (PCT) System is developed by the University of Macau.