On the task of determining the tense to use when translating a Chinese verb into English, current systems do not perform as well as human translators. The main focus of the present paper is to identify features that human translators use, but which are not currently automatically extractable. The goal is twofold: to test a particular hypothesis about what additional information human translator...

This paper addresses the problem of reliably measuring productivity gains by professional translators working with a machine translation enhanced computer assisted translation tool. In particular, we report on a field test we carried out with a commercial CAT tool in which translation memory matches were supplemented with suggestions from a commercial machine translation engine. The field test ...

this article was written based on the key concept of polysystem theory which, in translating any literary text, emphasizes the transference of the social systems in which a text is embedded. as stated by tynjanov (1978a), polysystem theory saw translated literature as a system operating in the larger social systems of the target text. thus, the task of understanding as well as transferring such...

Translator is a writer. This an essential understanding for “novice” translators, especially students in higher education that learn translation studies. Some cases (see Annisa, (2020), Nurlaila(2021), Aprianti(2021) show the language department faced difficulty to conduct tasks. Therefore, or novice translators have writing practice may enhance their skills. As involved activity, (novice trans...

Programming of technical tasks can often be viewed as translation from one formal language into another. Thus suitable translators can improve productivity. Depot4 is a metasystem for rapid development of translators. Its unique translation centered metalanguage is for efficiency and ease of use by non-experts. The implementation, which is by preprocessing, benefits from the innovative features...