THE FUNCTION OF TRANSLATOR IN THE PROCESS OF COMPUTER-AIDED TRANSLATION

Nowadays, when communication technologies are widely used in all areas of life, translation is becoming more and more automatic and automatic translation programs and software are becoming increasingly widespread. This affects adversely the position of language experts, who are qualified as human translators, in this area. Therefore, it is observed that this situation started to cause anxiety for both the translators of the translators as well as the translation department students who are the candidates of the future. However, the extent to which a computer translation can be compared with the translation by an expert translator is an important topic of discussion. Moreover, with the advancement of translation technologies, it can be said that there are only some changes in the translation process. The aim of this study is to examine the role and status of the translator in parallel with technology in computer aided translation process. For this purpose, translation technologies and automatic translation process are mentioned briefly. Then, the role and function of the translator before the development of translation technologies was discussed. Then, the changes that technology has caused in this regard and some determinations about the functions and functions that the translator can undertake. Lastly, evaluations were made about the effects of the developments in translation technologies on the translation sector.

Keywords

translation, technology, machine translation, translator, translation memory.