bitext

English

Alternative forms

• bi-text

Etymology

From bi- +‎ text, coined by Brian Harris in 1987 as bi-text.

Noun

bitext (plural bitexts)

1. (translation studies) A merged document composed of both source- and target-language versions of a given text.

   Synonym: parallel text

   • 1988, Brian Harris, “Bi-text, a new concept intranslation theory”, in Language Monthly, number 54, pages 8–10:

     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.

   • 2014, “Bitext”, in Sin-Wai Chan, editor, Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology‎^[1], Routledge, →ISBN, page 412:

     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.

Translations

merged document

• Russian: битекст (ru) m (bitekst), параллельный текст m (parallelʹnyj tekst)

Further reading

• parallel text § bitext on Wikipedia.Wikipedia