Generation, production, and Translation

The Effects of Collaborative Translation Task on the Apology Speech Act Production of Iranian EFL Learners

The present study aims to investigate the relative effectiveness of different types of pragmatic instruction including two collaborative translation tasks and two structured input tasks with and without explicit pragmatic instruction on the production of apologetic utterances by low-intermediate EFL learners. One hundred and fifty university students in four experimental groups and one control ...

The Relation between Critical Thinking and Translation Quality

This study determined whether there was any significant relation between EFL student’s critical thinking and their translation quality. To this end, 60 male and female translation students took part in the study. The participants were chosen from among senior BA students and junior MA students. The subjects were given a translation production test and a critical thinking questionnaire (Honey, 2...

The KANTOO Machine Translation Environment

In this paper we describe the KANTOO machine translation environment, a set of software services and tools for multilingual document production. KANTOO includes modules for source language analysis, target language generation, source terminology management, target terminology management, and knowledge source development. The KANTOO system represents a complete re-design and re-implementation of...

Incremental Sentence Production with a Parallel Marker-Passing Algorithm

~DMDIALOG [Kitano, 1989a], developed at the Center for Machine Translation at Carnegie Mellon University. This paper describes a method of incremental natural language generation using a parallel marker-passing algorithm for modeling simultaneous interpretation. Semantic and syntactic knowledge are represented in a memory network in which several types of markers are passed around in order to m...

Defining Integrated Knowledge Translation and Moving Forward: A Response to Recent Commentaries

An Approach to Automatic Code Generation for Safety-Critical Systems

Automated translation, or code generation, of a formal requirements model to production code can alleviate many of the problems associated with design and implementation. In this report we outline the requirements of such code generation to obtain a high level of conndence in the correctness of the translation process. We then describe a translator for a state-based modeling language called RSM...