Translation Principles vs. Translator Strategies

Machine Translation vs. Translator Aids: A False Dichotomy

Advances in Computers The past 30 years have been a period of rapid development for computers and their uses. In computer hardware, we have seen a progression from vacuum tubes to transistors to integrated circuits to microprocessors. In computer uses, we have seen an expansion beyond military and business applications that includes computeraided design and manufacturing, bibliographic data ret...

Translation Technology and the Translator

Translation and/or translator skills as organising principles for curriculum development practice

Since the 1970s, Translation Studies have embraced skills and competences for the mapping of translation as a complex and specialised type of knowledge. A number of authors within TS have already extensively reviewed and analysed most of the existing translation and/or translator competence models, i.e., competence models literature reviews by Campbell (1998); Schäffner (2000); Kelly (2002); Py...

Lecture Translator - Speech translation framework for simultaneous lecture translation

Foreign students at German universities often have difficulties following lectures as they are often held in German. Since human interpreters are too expensive for universities we are addressing this problem via speech translation technology deployed in KIT’s lecture halls. Our simultaneous lecture translation system automatically translates lectures from German to English in real-time. Other s...

Dialogue translation vs. text translation

The authors discuss the differences of envi~onmeats whexe dialogue translation and textual translation systems might be used. The differences are summarized as clear definition of information and active participations of speakers and hearers in dialogue t~anslation. A new approach to MT, interpretation based approach, is proposed to take the advantages of dialogue translation environments. The ...