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Using Controlled English: does it help?
Thread poster: Tsu Dho Nimh
Tsu Dho Nimh
Tsu Dho Nimh
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Dec 10, 2005

We are investigating several tools for creating "Controlled English" (also called Simplified English) that will supposedly be easier to translate and localize.

I am already convinced it will work. What I need is input from translators who work with controlled and uncontrolled English source files.

Does it help you? How does it help? How much faster are you? What is the error rate between controlled and uncontrolled source texts?
 
Peter Bouillon
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All about solving the wrong problem Dec 11, 2005

Tsu Dho Nimh wrote:

We are investigating several tools for creating "Controlled English" (also called Simplified English) that will supposedly be easier to translate and localize.


Well, I'm not keen on reading "controlled" language, translated or otherwise.

P.
 
Jeff Allen
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About Controlled English Dec 14, 2005

Globlish and controlled/simplified languages
http://www.proz.com/post/222849#222849

Controlled Langage, Speech translation, etc
http://www.proz.com/post/270509#270509

aerospace language
http://www.proz.com/post/274077#274077



Tsu Dho Nimh wrote:

We are investigating several tools for creating "Controlled English" (also called Simplified English) that will supposedly be easier to translate and localize.

I am already convinced it will work. What I need is input from translators who work with controlled and uncontrolled English source files.

Does it help you? How does it help? How much faster are you? What is the error rate between controlled and uncontrolled source texts?


Controlled English (CE) and Simplified English (SE) are not exactly the same thing. SE is one example of a CE that was created by AECMA in the 1980s for aerospace documentation. It was aimed for readability of the texts, not for translatability. Other types of CE, such as Caterpillar Technical English (CTE) were in fact designed with translation in mind. I explain this in one of my articles on the topic.

Controlled Languages web site: http://www.geocities.com/controlledlanguage/

See the following previous posts:

Controlled languages web site
http://www.proz.com/post/174717#174717

Globlish and controlled/simplified languages
http://www.proz.com/post/222849#222849

Controlled Langage, Speech translation, etc
http://www.proz.com/post/270509#270509

aerospace language
http://www.proz.com/post/274077#274077



Jeff
 


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