Emails contain linguistic phenomena that deviate from standard language norms and may cause machine translation errors. In order to design an email translation environment for the Interlingua project developed at UOC, we classified deviations from the standard in a corpus of emails in Catalan and analysed their impact on the machine translation quality in Spanish. Here we present this analysis....

In practical translation classes it is inevitable that students make errors. Making errors in fact a characteristic of training process, and the role teacher to respond offer timely appropriate correction/feedback so are able differentiate between correct erroneous translations. Training develop ability produce accurate part parcel any classes. This paper, which has pedagogical nature, investig...

Whether errors in protein synthesis play a role in aging has been a subject of intense debate. It has been suggested that rare mistakes in protein synthesis in young organisms may result in errors in the protein synthesis machinery, eventually leading to an increasing cascade of errors as organisms age. Studies that followed generally failed to identify a dramatic increase in translation errors...

Grammatical error correction (GEC) is the task of automatically correcting grammatical errors in written text. Earlier attempts to grammatical error correction involve rule-based and classifier approaches which are limited to correcting only some particular type of errors in a sentence. As sentences may contain multiple errors of different types, a practical error correction system should be ab...

Error analysis (EA) has been broadly applied to the researches of writing, speaking, second language acquisition (SLA) and translation. This study was carried out based on Carl James' error taxonomy to investigate the distribution of lexical errors in Chinese-English (C-E) translation of drug package inserts (DPIs)(1), explore the underlying causes and propose some translation strategies for co...

SMT typically models translation at the sentence level, ignoring wider document context. Does this hurt the consistency of translated documents? Using a phrase-based SMT system in various data conditions, we show that SMT translates documents remarkably consistently, even without document knowledge. Nevertheless, translation inconsistencies often indicate translation errors. However, unlike in ...

A population of bacteria growing in a nonlimiting medium includes mutator bacteria and transient mututors defined as wild-type bacteria which, due to occasional transcription or translation errors, display a mutator phenotype. A semiquantitative theoretical analysis of the steady-state composition of an Escherichia coli population suggests that rue strong genotypic mutators produce about 3 X lo...