Unintended consequences of translation technologies: from project managers’ perspectives

The Unintended Consequences of Information Age Technologies

Introduction Military organizations are, by their very nature, resistant to change. This is, in no small part, due to the fact that the cost of error is exceedingly high. Change, particularly change that may affect the relationships among organizations and between commanders and their subordinates, presents significant risks and generates considerable concern. The explosion of information techn...

Some Multidimensional Unintended Consequences of Telehealth Utilization: A Multi-Project Evaluation Synthesis

Background Telehealth initiatives have bloomed around the globe, but their integration and diffusion remain challenging because of the complex issues they raise. Available evidence around telehealth usually deals with its expected effects and benefits, but its unintended consequences (UCs) and influencing factors are little documented. This study aims to explore, describe and analyze mult...

Unintended Consequences.

investigating the integration of translation technologies into translation programs in iranian universities: basis for a syllabus design in translation technology

today, information technology and computers are indispensable tools of any profession and translation technologies have become an indispensable part of translator’s workstation. with the increasing demands for high productivity and speed as well as consistency and with the rise of new demands for translation and localization, it is necessary for translators to be familiar with market demands an...

The ALST Project: Technologies for Audiovisual Translation

This paper presents an overview of the ALST project, in which speech technologies (speech recognition and speech synthesis) and machine translation were implemented in the voice-over of non-fictional genres and in the audio description of films. The paper presents the project rationale, a brief description of the experiments carried out within the project, as well as its main findings.