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CAT tools for Interpreters | CAT-Tools for Interpreters

Gregor_Mikesa — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:23:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tools for Interpreters
Poster: Gregor_Mikesa
Post title: CAT-Tools for Interpreters

[quote]humana wrote:

Does anyone knows any useful CAT tool for interpreters? I can guess there should be some software to improve the interpreter performance when he/she tries to create or to retrieve some terminology or even when he/she is at work in the booth... [/quote]

Hello!

InterpretBank is the newest, I think. There are some others of Course, for example Interpley, LookUP and TermDB.

CAT tools for Interpreters | InterpretBank experience

Gregor_Mikesa — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:16:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tools for Interpreters
Poster: Gregor_Mikesa
Post title: InterpretBank experience

Hello!

I am writing a paper about the tool InterpretBank. This software was created for Interpreters by Mr. Claudio Fantinuoli. Is here anybody, who is experienced in this software? I am searching 2 or 3 people for an interview for my paper. It would be very helpful if somebody would like to get interviewed. If you are interested, send me a PM or an Email ( [email removed] ).

Thank you!!!

With best regards
Gregor

[Edited at 2015-12-29 15:35 GMT]

CAT tools for Interpreters | Reference search

David Turner — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:27:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tools for Interpreters
Poster: David Turner
Post title: Reference search

[quote]Magda Dziadosz wrote:
I also experimented with CAT tools in the research phase: I used Wordfast and one other tool to create bilingual word lists from reference materials to quickly retrieve relevant terminology. It didn't worked well I must say. First, because 90% of materials are in PowerPoint and CAT tools do not like this format, second the time spend on cleaning the list from unnecessary words was not worth it. So I rather rely on traditional method: reading the files and making notes.
Magda [/quote]

The best plan with Wordfast is to put such material in WF's "Reference" directory. Everything is converted into plain text (so use a copy!) and you then get a display of all instances of a term or expression (and its translation, if any) by just pressing the "Reference search" button on the WF toolbar. It' lightning fast.

HTH
David

CAT tools for Interpreters | some useful tools

Sandro Ruggeri Dulcet — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:37:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tools for Interpreters
Poster: Sandro Ruggeri Dulcet
Post title: some useful tools

Hi Magda, Wolfgang and Jabberwock, thanks for your comments.

I received some very intersting suggestions from Bruno Ciola, in the Italian post of this same question. He suggested me these softwares:

- interplex: [url removed]
- LookUp: [url removed]
- TermDB (sviluppato da Christian Vogeler)
- InterpretBank (in fase di sviluppo da parte di Claudio Fantinuoli).

CAT tools for Interpreters | Electronic dictionaries, own dictionaries

Magda Dziadosz — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:36:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tools for Interpreters
Poster: Magda Dziadosz
Post title: Electronic dictionaries, own dictionaries

Hi,
In the booth I usually have my laptop where I have several bilingual dictionaries as well as my own glossaries and of course reference materials sent by client. However, it's rather a backup or a last resort help - I always try to rely on my memory and do proper research before the assignment. But the laptop (and Internet) certainly helps: I remember a conference where one of the speakers listed a number of (not so common) chemical substances - at this point both me and my booth partners relied heavily on a bilingual chemical dictionary we had on our laptops. Finding the entry WHILE interpreting is not an easy task, however ;)

I also experimented with CAT tools in the research phase: I used Wordfast and one other tool to create bilingual word lists from reference materials to quickly retrieve relevant terminology. It didn't worked well I must say. First, because 90% of materials are in PowerPoint and CAT tools do not like this format, second the time spend on cleaning the list from unnecessary words was not worth it. So I rather rely on traditional method: reading the files and making notes.

HTH,
Magda

CAT tools for Interpreters | Terminology base

Jaroslaw Michalak — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 17:37:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tools for Interpreters
Poster: Jaroslaw Michalak
Post title: Terminology base

I suppose that if you just want to check glossaries created by yourself beforehand, any terminology software would do.

For starters, you could check ApSIC Xbench, a free tool created for that purpose:

[url removed]

CAT tools for Interpreters | Database lookups

Wolfgang Jörissen — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 15:13:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tools for Interpreters
Poster: Wolfgang Jörissen
Post title: Database lookups

I could imagine that the possibility of searching bilingual material that is stored in a TM could be useful. AFAIK, this feature is offered by any CAT tool, although it is not always as comfortable to use.

CAT tools for Interpreters

Sandro Ruggeri Dulcet — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:21:00 +0000

Forum: CAT Tools Technical Help
Topic: CAT tools for Interpreters
Poster: Sandro Ruggeri Dulcet

Does anyone knows any useful CAT tool for interpreters? I can guess there should be some software to improve the interpreter performance when he/she tries to create or to retrieve some terminology or even when he/she is at work in the booth...