Bitext

Quick meaning: Bitext is a noun meaning (translation studies) A merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text.

Meaning

(translation studies) A merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text.

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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.

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.

Word Forms

• bitexts
• bi-text

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include target, back-translation, transclusion, cotranslation, backtranslation, interlanguage.

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