GC: n
CT: Alignment is the arrangement of correct matches between the source and the target language in parallel. The source and target files are compared and a high quality translation segment is created.
An alignment tool is software that can automatically create a document, known as a bitext, with both source and target text versions aligned. CAT tools match corresponding translation units using statistical and linguistic algorithms.
S: http://www.ltcinnovates.com/es/language-translation-industry-glossary/alignment-for-translation-productivity.html (last access: 31 December 2014)
N: 1. alignment (n): 1790, «arrangement in a line,» from French alignement, from aligner (see align).
tool (n): Old English tol «instrument, implement used by a craftsman or laborer, weapon,» from Proto-Germanic to(w)lam «implement» (cognates: Old Norse tol), from a verb stem represented by Old English tawian «prepare» (see taw). The ending is the instrumental suffix -el.
2. Software that allows comparison of parallel texts by displaying them side by side based on correspondences established between text units.
S: 1. OED – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=alignment&searchmode=none; http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=tool&searchmode=none (last access: 31 December 2014). 2. TERMIUMPLUS.
SYN: 1. alignment software, text alignment software, automatic alignment software. 2. text-alignment tool, aligner, text aligner.
S: 1. GDT. 2. TERMIUMPLUS.