**** Internet Search Techniques Course for Translators *****
     Zurich, Switzerland
     http://web.ticino.com/multilingual/next_internet_course.htm


WWW Search Interfaces for Translators (http://www.multilingual.ch)

Up until not too long ago, translators’ main source of terminology was
printed reference material, which meant endless browsing through mountains
of paper in the hope of finding answers to their queries; Today, with the
advent of the Internet, we have at our fingertips an immense searchable
database providing instant access to more information than we could ever
have imagined.

However, there is so much material out there that finding relevant
information can be like searching for a needle in a haystack. In a fast
and frenzied world in which technology is progressing at the speed of
light—with the printing industry struggling to keep up with the evolving
language—and in which clients have come to expect instant turnaround,
translators can hardly afford to waste precious time surfing the Internet
for terminology: What we need is instant access to relevant information
that will enable us to deliver high-quality translations within the
tightest of deadlines. The WWW Search Interfaces for Translators provide
just that.

Tanya Harvey Ciampi will present a series of Internet search techniques
specially designed to help translators sift out relevant information from
the Internet, separating the wheat from the chaff: she will reveal fast
and effective methods for locating definitions and translations of
user-defined terms in various languages in free online dictionaries,
glossaries and parallel texts, i.e. two or more equivalent texts in
different languages.

http://www.multilingual.ch



CONTENT OF COURSE:
 
Part 1: Finding Glossaries and Lists of Abbreviations on the Internet
1. The Internet: A powerful terminology research tool for translators
2. WWW Search Interfaces for Translators
3. Finding glossaries using the WWW Search Interfaces for Translators
4. Finding abbreviations using the WWW Search Interfaces for Translators
5. How do search engines interpret our queries?
6. Search engine facts
7. The "404 Page Not Found" and "The page cannot be displayed" errors &
how to deal with them
8. Understanding the URL: Breaking it down into its various components

Part 2: Advanced Search Techniques
9.  What is the difference between Basic Search and Advanced Search (e.g. 
in Altavista)?
10. Basic search syntax: "+", "-" and quotation marks (" ")
11. Advanced search syntax: Boolean operators AND, OR, AND NOT and NEAR
12. Field searching to restrict your search to a particular part of a page
13. Different search engines, different search syntaxes: Google vs. Altavista
14. Google vs. Altavista: pros and cons
15. Case sensitivity
16. General rules for improving your results

Part 3: Finding Parallel Texts on the Internet
17. Finding parallel texts on the Internet
18. Finding parallel texts on separate pages using the WWW Search 
Interfaces for Translators
19. Finding parallel texts on the same page using the Search Engine Tricks
20. Finding parallel texts by going directly to a website with parallel texts
21. Advantages and disadvantages of using a website's own SE (as opposed
to a general-purpose SE) 
22. The invisible web
23. Introduction to Glosspost and wwwsift


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