bitext
A merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text.
Noun
- 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...
- 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...
Synonyms: parallel text
Origin
From bi- + text, coined by Brian Harris in 1987 as bi-text.