Translating Words, Translating Cultures

Translating Stories Across Cultures

Stories, and especially their resolutions are sedimented within a web of belief and value specific to a particular culture. The traditions or shared understandings of a culture are communicated intergenerationally through shared social practice, and especially through language. They suggest paradigmatic dilemmas, and offer solutions drawing upon the prevailing cultural beliefs and meanings. One...

Translating Medical Words by Analogy

Term translation has become a recurring need in medical informatics. This creates an interest for robust methods which can translate medical words in various languages. We propose a novel, analogy-based method to generate word translations. It relies on a partial bilingual lexicon and solves bilingual analogical equations to create candidate translations. To evaluate the potential of this metho...

Translating Unknown Words by Analogical Learning

Unknown words are a well-known hindrance to natural language applications. In particular, they drastically impact machine translation quality. An easy way out commercial translation systems usually offer their users is the possibility to add unknown words and their translations into a dedicated lexicon. Recently, Stroppa and Yvon (2005) have shown how analogical learning alone deals nicely with...

Translating Literary Types

Translating Chinese Unknown Words by Automatically Acquired Templates

In this paper, we present a translation template model to translate Chinese unknown words. The model exploits translation templates, which are extracted automatically from a word-aligned parallel corpus, to translate unknown words. The translation templates are designed in accordance with the structure of unknown words. When an unknown word is detected during translation, the model applies tran...