Translator, Please!

The translator.

First of all, let me thank you very much indeed for this opportunity to talk with you concerning problems of mutual concern. In view of your current endeavors in the design of a new curriculum, and, more importantly, the premises from which this design emanates, it is clear that at best I may be bringing a few coals to Newcastle. Nevertheless, let me try to formulate with you some of my thought...

Characteristics of Competent Translator Trainers From the Viewpoint of Expert Iranian Translator Trainers: A Qualitative Study

In this study, the directed (deductive) content analysis approach was adopted to explore the components of translator trainers’ competencies through in-depth individual semistructured interviews conducted with 10 expert Iranian translator trainers at different universities around Iran. Theoretical model was the translator trainer profile proposed by The European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Gr...

Dynamic Translator-Based Virtualization

Microkernels and virtual machine monitors are both utilized as platforms for running operating systems. Although there are many similarities in their designs and features, they have opposite advantages and drawbacks. A microkernel based system is highly portable. However, the interface it exposes is inflexible and incompatible with other real hardware interfaces. In contrast, a virtual machine ...

Personal Translator at WMT2011

This paper presents the Linguatec submission to the WMT 2011 sixth workshop on statistical machine translation. It describes the architecture of our machine translation system ‘Personal Translator’ (hereinafter also referred to as PT), developed by Linguatec, which is a rule-based translation system, enriched by statistical approaches. We participate for the German-English translation direction...

An SEDL Translator