Translation as Adaptation for Language Pedagogy

Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation.

We propose that the cognitive mechanisms that enable the transmission of cultural knowledge by communication between individuals constitute a system of 'natural pedagogy' in humans, and represent an evolutionary adaptation along the hominin lineage. We discuss three kinds of arguments that support this hypothesis. First, natural pedagogy is likely to be human-specific: while social learning and...

Bilingual LSA-based translation lexicon adaptation for spoken language translation

We present a bilingual LSA (bLSA) framework for translation lexicon adaptation. The idea is to apply marginal adaptation on a translation lexicon so that the lexicon marginals match to indomain marginals. In the framework of speech translation, the bLSA method transfers topic distributions from the source to the target side, such that the translation lexicon can be adapted before translation ba...

On the Pedagogy of literary translation

Translation, Adaptation and Validity Assessment of the Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium Scale in Persian language

  Background and purpose: Delirium is an acute mental disorder that has been less considered in children. The Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delirium (CAPD) is designed to detect delirium in children by non-specialist personnel. The purpose of this study was to translate and evaluate the validity and reliability of this scale in Persian language. Materials and methods: In this study, after t...

Online language model adaptation for spoken dialog translation

This paper focuses on the problem of language model adaptation in the context of Chinese-English cross-lingual dialogs, as set-up by the challenge task of the IWSLT 2009 Evaluation Campaign. Mixtures of n-gram language models are investigated, which are obtained by clustering bilingual training data according to different available human annotations, respectively, at the dialog level, turn leve...