Judith Butler in Lithuanian: Translation Trouble, or Rather Misery

The trouble with translation

The Trouble with Machine Translation Coherence

This paper introduces the problem of measuring coherence in Machine Translation. Previously, local coherence has been assessed in a monolingual context using essentially coherent texts. These are then artificially shuffled to create an incoherent one. We investigate existing models for the task of measuring the coherence of machine translation output. This is a much more challenging case where ...

Who Says "I Do"? Reviewing Judith Butler & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Who Sings the Nation-State? Language, Politics, Belonging (2007)

This Book Review offers an analogy between two forms of resistance to legal discrimination by marginalized minorities: singing the national anthem in Spanish on the streets of Los Angeles in the spring of 2006 by undocumented immigrants, and possible future public marriage ceremonies by LGBT people and other marriage outlaws. Based on the conceptual grounds laid by Judith Butler and Gayatri Spi...

investigating the integration of translation technologies into translation programs in iranian universities: basis for a syllabus design in translation technology

today, information technology and computers are indispensable tools of any profession and translation technologies have become an indispensable part of translator’s workstation. with the increasing demands for high productivity and speed as well as consistency and with the rise of new demands for translation and localization, it is necessary for translators to be familiar with market demands an...

The Marriage of Science and Management: Eternal Bliss or Misery?

The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions and policies of the U.S. government, any of the other co-sponsoring or supporting organizations, or the George Wright Society. Any mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute an endorsement by the U.S. government, any of the other co-spon...