Recent studies and reports have shown that Machine Translation (MT) is about to by-pass the translation profession. In this article we will argue that this development is due to the translation profession's inability to resolve the tension between its traditional professional values and reference system, and the new objectives of translation technology. We hold that a change in the translator's...

Automated and machine translation tools have become integral elements of the process, but their place in models is still not defined. On one hand, trend towards automating practices reducing burden on human translators, freeing them from repetitive, tedious low-tech tasks up for more complex creative tasks, other it also invading into territory professional translators at conversion level. This...

The subject of the study is peculiarities development interpretation skills. object formation oral conversational skills among linguists-translators when teaching Chinese as a foreign language. used methods deduction and induction, comparative, contextual analysis. author examines in detail such aspects topic translation erudition, characteristics interpretation, identification effective exerci...

Ethics are related to the structure and culture of the society. In addition to specialized ethics for every profession, individuals also hold their own personal beliefs and values. This study aimed to investigate Iranian occupational therapists' perception of ethical practice when working with children. For this purpose, qualitative content analysis was used and semi-structured interviews were ...

The present study aims to examine the adverse effects of absence Computer-assisted Translation (CAT) tool course syllabi in Libyan universities on translation quality government institutions. This research is motivated by underutilization CAT tools departments and lack education their use universities, which may result a shortage professional translators proficient utilizing these tools. employ...

Professional translators often dictate their translations orally and have them typed afterwards. The TransTalk project aims at automating the second part of this process. Its originality as a dictation system lies in the fact that both the acoustic signal produced by the translator and the source text under translation are made available to the system. Probable translations of the source text c...

This article describes an evaluation method for spelling and grammar checkers and gives the results of its application to two French checkers. The evaluation process follows closely the ISO/IEC and EAGLES guidelines, and defines precisely the evaluation metrics, so that they can be easily reproduced. The choice of professional translators as user profile entails the use of a corpus of spelling ...

Statistical Machine Translation (MT) systems have achieved impressive results in recent years, due in large part to the increasing availability of parallel text for system training and development. This paper describes recent efforts at Linguistic Data Consortium to create linguistic resources for MT, including corpora, specifications and resource infrastructure. We review LDC's three-pronged a...

This paper reports on a comparative evaluation of phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) and neural machine translation (NMT) for four language pairs, using the PET interface to compare educational domain output from both systems using a variety of metrics, including automatic evaluation as well as human rankings of adequacy and fluency, error-type markup, and post-editing (techni...