bitext

plural bitexts · alternative bi-text

1. human sciencesA 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 Monthly, number 54, pages 8–10

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   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.

   2014, “Bitext”, in Sin-Wai Chan, editor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 412

   Synonyms: parallel text