Design and Development of Translator's Workbench

This paper describes the system design of a Translator's Workbench (TWB), built around the core concept of Translation Memory System (TMS), a method of capturing, storing and re-using translation. It examines the architectural, structural and procedural framework of the TWB with development details, including implementation essentials, to facilitate better understanding of the software system. The input to the software comes in the form of a formatted document in any of the software packages like MS-Word, Excel or PowerPoint and the output generated for the user is a translated document with the same formatting, providing an opportunity to the user to accept, edit or reject the translation. Thus, a possible solution to the problem of translating documents from English to Indian and other languages is provided. The paper envisages development in the field of translation from English to Hindi language only. However, the principles described here are also applicable to translation into other languages.