In her paper, "Chinese Feminisms and Adaptation-as-Translation Readings of Letter from an Unknown Woman," Jinhua Li investigates the complex cultural and political issues engendered by an increasingly popular phenomenon of transnational film adaptations. Through a comparative reading of Jinglei Xu's 2004 adaptation of Stefan Zweig's novella Brief einer Unbekannten (Letter From an Unknown Woman)...

As larger and more diverse parallel texts become available, how can we leverage heterogeneous data to train robust machine translation systems that achieve good translation quality on various test domains? This challenge has been addressed so far by repurposing techniques developed for domain adaptation, such as linear mixture models which combine estimates learned on homogeneous subdomains. Ho...

Domain adaptation for SMT usually adapts models to an individual specific domain. However, it often lacks some correlation among different domains where common knowledge could be shared to improve the overall translation quality. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-domain adaptation approach for SMT using Multi-Task Learning (MTL), with in-domain models tailored for each specific domain and...

Changes in neuronal responses during and after adaptation to prolonged optic flow stimulation were investigated by extracellular single-unit recording in the posteromedial lateral suprasylvian area (PMLS) of the cat. In comparison with translation stimuli, the complex optic flow patterns (radiation and rotation) produced more pronounced adaptation and after-effects by inducing larger response r...

This study evaluates the translation quality of a children's story, "Dive", in Let’s Read app using Angelelli's scoring rubric. The focus is on accuracy, fluency, readability, cultural adaptation, and style Indonesian translation, "Menyelam." research uncovers strengths challenges process its impact young audience. With scores from 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent), contributes significantly debate ass...

background: in spite of the increased range of inactivity and obesity among iranian adults, insufficient research has been done on environmental factors influencing physical activity. as a result adapting a subjective (self-report) measurement tool for assessment of physical environment in iran is critical. accordingly, in this study neighborhood environment walkability scale (news) was adapted...

background: epstein-barr virus (ebv) has a great co relationship with human malignancies such as gastric carcinoma. synonymous codon investigations in viruses could help designing vaccine, to generate immunity. codon adaptation index (cai) has measured translation elongation rate, among the highly expressed genes. the aim of this study was: usage of “cai” to measure translation efficiency to kn...

Statistical machine translation is often faced with the problem of combining training data from many diverse sources into a single translation model which then has to translate sentences in a new domain. We propose a novel approach, ensemble decoding, which combines a number of translation systems dynamically at the decoding step. In this paper, we evaluate performance on a domain adaptation se...

Domain adaptation for statistical machine translation is the task of altering general models to improve performance on the test domain. In this work, we suggest several novel weighting schemes based on translation models for adapted phrase extraction. To calculate the weights, we first phrase align the general bilingual training data, then, using domain specific translation models, the aligned ...