bitext en · NOUN
Etymology
From bi- + text, coined by Brian Harris in 1987 as bi-text.
Meanings
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A merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text.
Another way of putting it is to say that a bi-text is not two texts but a single text in two dimensions, each of which is a language.
1988, Brian Harris, “Bi-text, a new concept intranslation theory”, in Language Monthly, number 54, pages 8–10:Once a bitext is available, it can be converted into a traditional translation memory, which usually involves eliminating duplicate translation units, some degree of normalization of the segments, and combining unordered sets of translation units from a number of source and target texts into an indexed database.
2014, “Bitext”, in Sin-Wai Chan, editor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 412:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bitexts | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| bi-text | alternative | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (2)
ru битекст (merged document) · ru параллельный текст (merged document)