The Chinese Bible Translation Project Chinese Standard Bible CSB

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The Chinese Bible Translation Project-Chinese
Standard Bible (CSB)

• (November 1, 2006)
• Asia Bible Society (ABSo)??????Holman Bible
  Outreach International (HBOI)

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Agenda

• Why another Bible translation in Chinese?
• Translation Project Team
• Process
• Using Computer Technology
• Work in Progress
• Publishing Distribution

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Team Members Roles

• Translators Editors
• Hebrew Greek Scholars
• Computational Linguists
• Reviewers / Chinese Litterateur
• System Developers
• Project Managers

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Network Collaboration
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Overall Process
Trees, Keywords Phrases Link Words to Lexicon
Hebrew/Greek Scholars
Analyze Source
Translators
Pre-Transfer
Translate Keywords Phrases
Computational Linguist
Construct Edit Sentences Adjusting Keywords
Phrases
Chinese Literature Expert
Transfer
Translation Memory
Analyze Target
Alignment
Mapping Source to Target
Committee Approval
Review
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Editing Work Model
Linguists (Tree Alignment)
Translators
Chinese Stylists
Editorial Committee
External Reviewers
Hebrew Scholars
Executive Committee
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OT Schedule
2006 2007 2008
2009
Hiring
Edit Draft 2
Completion
TranslationDraft 0 1
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Concordance
Tree Alignment
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Computer Tools

• Hebrew / Chinese Parser
• Tree Alignment Tool
• Verse Revision Tracking
• Network System
• Concordance (word or phrase)
• Translation Memory

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Automatic Word Alignment
Terminology Base
MORPH 4.2
XDZ
DDS
Hebrew Text for the OT
XYB
CUV
Existing Chinese Translations
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Parse Hebrew Text

• Syntactic Diagrams

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Parse Chinese Translation
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Tree Alignment

• Connecting the related words, produces a Keyword
  List (or Translation Memory)

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Project Management
Work Assignment
ScheduledMeetings
Track Progress Quality Control
Project Manager
Payments
StatusReporting
ScheduleUpdating
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Schedule Forecast
2009
2006
2007
2008
Hebrew Scholars
Analyze Source
Computational Linguists
Keyword Phrase
Analyze Target Text / Align to Source
Verse Sentence Construction
Team 1
Verse Sentence Construction
Team 2
Verse Sentence Construction
Team n
Chinese Litterateur
Review
Review
Review
Review
Committee Review
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Publishing Distribution

• 2008 Olympics in Beijing
• New Testament to be ready soon!
• Joint projects with the China Christian Council
  (CCC)
• Vast network of House Churches
• Open doors of commerce (WTO)

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Living Bread to All Asia
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Thank you!