Using Bi-textual Alignment for Translation Validation: the TransCheck system

We describe the first prototype version of TransCheck, a system for automatically detecting certain types of translation errors that is based on the notion of bi-text, or aligned corpora of translated texts. We analyse the preliminary results obtained from applying TransCheck to five lengthy samples of published translations, discuss some of the problems that currently lie beyond the system's scope, and conclude by briefly sketching our plans for extending the first TransCheck prototype.