In our modern life, the introduction of new technologies and subsequent boom in satellites, television, as well as the Internet has made the world a much smaller place allowing different nations, cultures, and languages to interact more frequently. One of the biggest concerns of audiovisual translators is cultural and ideological items which taboo terms are included. This study aims at investig...

Computational simulations of natural selection for communicative success show that natural selection alone is capable of evolving optimal communication systems. Simulations of the interactions between natural selection and learning show that the biases of learners, when placed in the framework of iterated cultural transmission of communication systems, result in cultural selection of communicat...

The goal of this study is to determine the capability Google Translate in term translating cultural terms. This conducted analyze translation performed by one well-known machine translation, Translate. data collected from seven traditional Balinese folktales chosen random via online, namely Manik Angkeran, Kebo Iwa, Lubdaka, Tampaksiring, Origin Bali, Singaraja, and Pan Balang Tamak. on terms t...