This essay approaches the challenges of global translation in the 21st century from what might still be considered a somewhat uncommon example: a direct translation of Ismail Kadaré's 1978 novel Prill e thyër (Broken April) from the original Albanian into Brazilian Portuguese in 2001. Not only does it examine and compare lexical elements in the source and target texts and the usage of translato...

Statistical machine translation models have made great progress in improving the translation quality. However, the existing models predict the target translation with only the sourceand target-side local context information. In practice, distinguishing good translations from bad ones does not only depend on the local features, but also rely on the global sentence-level information. In this pape...

As the title suggests, Science Fiction in Translation (2021) explores afterlife of several works from non-Anglophone to Anglophone and vice versa. Edited by Ian Campbell, a well-known scholar field Arabic science fiction, volume highlights role translation influencing global popularity this genre. In introduction, Campbell argues that since is not transparent process, distortions are an inexora...