American Translators Association

American association for cancer research and american psychiatric association.

The American Association for Cancer Research meeting included reports on new agents for breast cancer and melanoma. The American Psychiatric Association meeting offered updates on treatments for bipolar depression, autism, and depression.

Hosting Volunteer Translators

We have developed a web site called Minna no Hon’yaku (“Translation for Everyone by Everyone”), which hosts online volunteer translators. Its core features are (1) a blog-like look and feel; (2) the legal sharing of translations; (3) high quality, comprehensive language resources; and (4) the translation aid editor QRedit. Translators who use QRedit daily reported an up to 30 per cent reduction...

Text Prediction for Translators

Demand for the servi es of translators is on the in rease, and onsequently so is the demand for tools to help them improve their produ tivity. This thesis proposes a novel tool intended to give a translator intera tive a ess to the most powerful translation te hnology available: a ma hine translation system. The main new idea is to use the target text being produ ed as the medium of intera tion...

Translators through History

American psychiatric association.

At this year's 161st Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, from May 3 to 8, 2008, in Washington, DC, researchers presented data on new atypical antipsychotic medications (iloperidone and asenapine) with an efficacy comparable to that of older atypical agents but with more benign side-effect profiles in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. In addition, among studies of post-trau...