Abstract

. Although undeniably useful for the translation of certain types of repetitive document, current translation memory technology is limited by the rudimentary techniques employed for approximate matching. Such systems, moreover, incorporate no real notion of a document, since the databases that underlie them are essentially composed of isolated sentence strings. As a result, current TM products can only exploit a small portion of the knowledge residing in translators' past production. This paper examines some of the changes that will have to be implemented if the technology is to be made more widely applicable. 1 Introduction The term "translation memory" admits of at least two different definitions, one broad and one narrow. The narrower, but more widely used, definition corresponds to the characteristics of a popular set of commercial products that includes Translator's Workbench from Trados, Transit from Star AG, D'ej`aVu from Atril and IBM's TranslationManager/2. Accordin...

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