TRA2001 Introduction to Computer-aided Translation (CRN1004)

Assignment 1

Deadline: 11 February 2025 (Tue) at 17:00

Background: You will be required to translate a corporate finance document of connected transaction of a listed company as your next assignment. You have decided to use Termsoup to complete the translation. Before that, you need to prepare a Translation Memory and a Termbase for use with the CAT tool. Fortunately, certain data files (in source language only) are available already.

You are required to complete the following three tasks:

(1) Create a Translation Memory of 100 translation units (TUs). ATU should include one source language segment and one target language segment (i.e. one language pair). The direction is from English to Chinese. The TM should be prepared in MS Excel

format. [Hint#1: try to identify similar sentences among the data files. Pick similar sentences for inclusion to the TM as they are more likely to be useful data for future assignment. Hint#2: content in summary boxes may contain such similar sentences]

(2) Create a Termbase of 50 bilingual items. The direction is from English to Chinese and the items are listed in alphabetical order. The Termbase should be prepared in MS Excel format. [Hint#3: priority should be given to jargons in the TM you have created]

(3) Create a log file containing screenshots of successful import of your TM and TB. The log file should be prepared in MS Word format.