Evaluative Meaning in Translation

Evaluative Meaning and Cohesion: The Structuring Function of Evaluative Meaning in Scientific Writing

Evaluative judgments are based on evaluative information: Evidence against meaning change in evaluative context effects.

Trait adjectives commonly employed in person perception studies have both evaluative and denotative meanings. Evaluative ratings of single traits shift with variations in the context of other traits ascribed to the stimulus person; the extent to which denotative changes underlie these evaluative context effects has been a theoretical controversy. In the first experiment, it was shown that conte...

Cross-Cultural Issues in Survey Translation: Translation of Meaning and Meaning of Translation

The paper outlines the translation process involved in the ORC Macro’s evaluation of the State Department’s International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Georgia. The IVLP is a long-running program in which foreign professionals and prospective leaders from all over the world have the opportunity to participate in funded short-term visits to the United Stat...

Meaning preservation in Machine Translation

The paper investigates how meaning preservation can be achieved in MT systems A distinction is made between ontological MT systems and epistemological MT systems Whereas ontological MT systems per form meaning preservation in the translation process by means of a set of rules that is provided by the system external world epistemological MT systems perform an understanding of meaning that is ind...

Meaning Understanding in Machine Translation

We have been studying the meaning-based approach to machine translation which can account for the generalization of the idea based on the thinking way of relationships between two objects in a language expression and/or deep structures embedded in it. In our approach, this came from the idea of the case relation in Case Grammar while the similar idea might have been adopted to design many thing...