Examples of using Text-processing units in English and their translations into Arabic
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The productivity of the text-processing units continues to improve.
The provision for this objectwas initially intended to meet the needs of the text-processing units.
Interpretation Service, Publishing Service and Text-Processing Units of the Translation Sections of the Languages Service.
Provide an alternative method of inputting text andflexibility in processing voice files to be transcribed by the text-processing units.
Text-processing units for each translation section and for the Editorial Control Unit are the responsibility of the Chief of the respective service.
Provide an alternative method of translating text andflexibility in processing voice files to be transcribed by the text-processing units.
The text-processing units at Headquarters completed the process of converting to the new word-processing standard of the Secretariat in mid-1993.
The effect of their manner of working is externalized to the text-processing units for those languages, however, which have by far the highest overtime costs.
Upgraded equipment and software more efficient for the production of new formats than thosecurrently used will become available in the text-processing units in the course of the next 12 months.
(e) The role of the text-processing units is much more complex and important than originally expected in cases where quality control is undertaken before issuance;
The subprogramme is under the responsibility of the Interpretation Service,the Publishing Service and the Text-processing Units of the Translation Sections of the Languages Service of the United Nations Office at Geneva.
Moreover, high vacancy rates in the text-processing units for some languages can only be addressed through international competitive recruitment campaigns, for which the Office of Human Resources Management lacks the necessary resources.
The continued application of new technologies to the document-processing services has allowed a proposed abolition orredeployment of 13 posts from the text-processing units in New York and 6 in Geneva.
With the exception of Chinese, the text-processing units have been fully converted to WordPerfect 5.1 using networked computer workstations.
Implementation of electronic submission of documents for all Secretariat users and e-Doc module for schedulingassignments of individuals for concerned sections in the Department(translators, text-processing units, verbatim reporters, etc.).
In some cases, it is expected that missing documents in thevarious languages will be supplied by the text-processing units of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management from their back-up disks.
Inspection by the Office of Internal Oversight Services(see A/55/803) resulted in enhanced efforts towards a fully electronic documentation production model, with implications for the subprogramme in the areas of pre-editing,referencing and translation(interfacing with text-processing units).
Translators ' workstations would be linked with those of text-processing units, editorial services and the Documentation, Reference and Terminology Section as well as with other databases within and outside the United Nations system.
With regard to the question raised by the Russian Federation, the fact that some translators keyboarded their own texts had reduced theresources required for subsequent text-processing(13 posts in the text-processing units had been abolished or redeployed in 1996).
Despite a reduction of 27established posts during the retrenchment exercise in 1988-1989, the text-processing units at Headquarters were able to cope with a 9.6 per cent increase in workload in 1990-1991 with no loss of quality or timeliness of output.
Distribution services. The Distribution Section will continue its present activities, including monitoring of archiving of documents in the optical disk system,scanning documents that cannot be stored directly by the text-processing units and providing retrieval and printing of documents on demand.
Benefits of the introduction of speech recognition technologywill accrue downstream of the translation process, in text-processing units, where the transcription of translations, original summary records and verbatim records recorded on audio cassettes still constitutes a very significant proportion of the total workload.
Copy preparation and proofreading of manuscripts; preparation of camera-ready mechanicals for internal printing of official documents and other materials; distribution of United Nations documents and publications;and scanning and archiving into the optical disk system documents that cannot be stored directly by the text-processing units.
The design of parliamentary documents is being revised to take account of both the requirements andthe capabilities of text-processing software, and text-processing units are now preparing documents(such as the proposed programme budget) that previously required external typesetting.
The Committee was informed that the voice recognition project mentioned in paragraph 2.45 was still under way, but that there had been some delay in the provision of the requisite software, owing to solvency problems of the software company that had been engaged by the United Nations. The Committee was informed that Geneva was the focal point for this project, which entails the conversion of recorded dictation to text in word-processing formats,thus reducing cassette transcription workloads in the text-processing units.
In the same report,the Office noted that some 89 General Service staff members in the text-processing units, who are currently entitled to international benefits, were due to retire by 2015; if those staff members were replaced by locally recruited staff, the accumulated savings would amount to approximately $8.1 million at 2004-2005 rates over the next 10 years.
The staffing proposals under subprogramme 4, Publishing services, New York, provide for the establishment of one P-5 post and one P-4 post and for the redeployment of three General Service(Other level)posts from the text-processing units of the Editorial and official records services, New York.
Translation staff had been equipped with up-to-date networked computers providing access both to in-house and Internet terminology resources, to bulletin boards for collaborative work,and to electronic file exchange with text-processing units, which resulted in cost savings and improved quality of translation.
As the document chain was complex and highly integrated and General Assembly mandates regarding documentation unyielding, it had been decided that the best course of action was to keep the operation intact by relocating all language staff, including translation services,editors and text-processing units, to the temporary swing space located at 305 East 46th Street for the duration of the implementation of the capital master plan.
The decreased requirements reflect a declining workload trend in the documentation area since 1992-1993 compared with other conference centres andthe implementation of technological applications in the text-processing unit.