Crossing borders and boundaries: Translation ecosystems in international business

Crossing Sentence Boundaries in Statistical Machine Translation

Crossing Borders

As emergency physicians, we are privileged to be in a field that crosses more boundaries than any other medical specialty. It is a calling. Our skills are portable and transferable across cultural and geographic disparities. For these reasons, many of us are drawn to sharing our knowledge and training across the globe – towards treating patients in underserved and austere environments abroad. T...

Crossing Borders:

"Cultural systems are coherent patterns of understanding built from the reciprocal relationships among 1) knowledge or beliefs: the shared conceptual understandings of what or how things are; 2) patterns of practice: both the models for doing and the model-guided, habituated actions of everyday practice; 3) 3 tools and artifacts: the means and ends of practical action; and 4) patterns of affect...

Crossing Boundaries: the Translation and Cultural Adaptation of Folk Narratives

It is one of the paradoxes of folk narrative research that the t r ans l a t ion and the t r a n s c u l t u r a l adap ta t ionof folklore texts have received so Httle attention so far. This lack of scholarly interest is surprising insofar äs folkloristics and ethnology, from their beginnings in the late 18th Century, had a keen interest in o ther cultures — and they bcgan with translations. I...

Crossing cultural boundaries: knowledge sharing in intercultural business networks

Strategic business nets are increasingly important in producing economic value in the global arena. This paper examines the influence of national culture on knowledge sharing in different types of intercultural business nets. Knowledge sharing is essential for the functioning of any business network as it influences the interaction between the actors and the outcomes they can achieve. Cultural ...