Translating culture

Translating culture and psychiatry across the Pacific: How koro became culture- bound

This article examines the development of koro’s epistemic status as a paradigm for understanding culture-specific disorders in modern psychiatry. Koro entered the DSM-IV as a culture-bound syndrome in 1994, and it refers to a person’s overpowering belief that his (or her) genitalia is retracting and even disappearing. I focus in particular on mental health professionals’ competing views of koro...

Translating Literary Types

Community-university Research Liaisons: Translating the Languages of Research and Culture.

This article describes the experiences of six individuals employed as community-university research liaisons in a grant-funded centre for health disparities research. The liaisons were located in Native American communities and bridged the communities and the university, providing information between these groups, expanding understanding and knowledge of how research can address health disparit...

Translating Neuralese

Several approaches have recently been proposed for learning decentralized deep multiagent policies that coordinate via a differentiable communication channel. While these policies are effective for many tasks, interpretation of their induced communication strategies has remained a challenge. Here we propose to interpret agents’ messages by translating them. Unlike in typical machine translation...

Translating Transliterations

Translating new entity names is important for improving performance in Natural Language Processing (NLP) applications such as Machine Translation (MT) and Cross Language Information Retrieval (CLIR). Usually, transliteration is used to obtain phonetic equivalents in a target language for a given source language word. However, transliteration across different writing systems often results in dif...