This study examined the cognitive processes in interpretation through employing Think-aloud Protocols (TAPs) among Iranian translators. The participants included 10 professional and nonprofessional translators selected through Nelson Proficiency Test. TAP and retrospective interview were used as the major instruments in order to collect the data from self-reports protocols. In order to assess t...

Recently more and more people communicate through the Internet, and machine translators are used as communication tools between peoples who cannot speak their partners' mother language. Since English is a hub language of development of language resources like machine translators or bilingual dictionaries, combining multiple machine translators via English enables intercultural communication and...

Three major problems in modem translation ideology were identified and the researcher proposed changes necessary for advancements in the development of translation theories and translation technology. Traditionally, the development in translation theory has created a translation ideology that has focused on the faithfulness and the accuracy of target texts in representing the source texts, enco...

A new framework for a system that aids online volunteer translators is proposed. As regards this proposal, first, the current status and conditions of online volunteer translators and their translation environments are examined, and general requirements for a system that would aid these translators are given. Our proposed approach for dealing with heterogeneous data, which involves providing a ...

recent translation studies have been increasingly focusing on translators as mediators between cultures around the world and have helped us to see how the translator`s identity as a necessarily gendered rewriter impacts their works. this research studied the translation of an indian woman writer`s language and perspectives at lexical level by two iranian woman translators to find the probable e...

Machine-translated segments are increasingly included as fuzzy matches within the translation-memory systems in the localisation workflow. This study presents preliminary results on the correlation between these two types of segments in terms of productivity and final quality. In order to test these variables, we set up an experiment with a group of eight professional translators using an on-li...

In recent years, a large amount of work has been done in the field of computational linguistics which should be of immediate interest to translators, and perhaps also to interpreters. It is the purpose of this paper to bring to the attention of professional linguists the usefulness of, and benefit to be derived from, work currently in progress in this field, and to allay the wariness and scepti...

The present study explored the intensity level of authorial voice in relation to the quality of argumentative writing. 42 undergraduate learners of English as a foreign language (36 girls and 6 boys) spent 45 minutes to individually complete in-class position-taking writing tasks for three weeks. Their overall academic writing quality scores assigned based on portfolio assessment were studied i...