This paper reports upon a survey carried out among thirty-eight trainee translators who took courses on machine translation. The survey was conducted asking the sample of students to fill out a questionnaire both at the beginning and at the end of the MT course. The questions aimed at assessing the degree of knowledge about MT of the respondents and the opinions and impressions that they accord...

This article reports on a key-logging study carried out to test the benefits of post-editing Machine Translation (MT) for the professional translator within a hypothetico-deductive framework, contrasting the outcomes of a number of variables which are inextricably linked to the professional translation process. Given the current trend of allowing the professional translator to connect to Google...

This article investigates perceptions of technology-mediated translations literary texts by two groups: translation students and professional translators. The participants post-edited an excerpt from a classic Dickens novel into Turkish using machine (MT) system their choice. analysis the texts, participants’ answers to survey questions, interviews with translators suggest that MT is currently ...

Applying professional values is an important issue in nursing practice. It is also crucial to find out nurses' perspectives toward ethical and professional values in the clinical environment. For this purpose, we aimed to utilize a standard tool to survey perspectives on applying these values in nursing care in hospitals of Isfahan, Iran. This is a descriptive-analytical study in which 150 nurs...

This study was motivated by the researchers’ goal to unfold the quality of the English translations of Persian tourism industry texts and discover the most frequent error patterns the Iranian non-native translators have committed in such texts. Thus, the following research questions were addressed: 1) Are the English versions of Persian tourist guidebooks and multimedia compact discs provided b...

Social workers are considered a professional group at high risk of burnout. Noticing the insufficient human resource management and understaffed social work centers, Iranian social workers are faced with a considerable level of physical and mental stress, which can lead to burnout. A national study on 390 social workers was conducted. Among social workers, 10.9% had experienced burnout and 17.4...

Professional translators are among the heaviest users of dictionaries, terminological resources, encyclopedias and other reference material. The resources they employ (e.g. Termium, Grand Dictionnaire Terminologique, IATE , the Robert-Collins bilingual dictionary) tend to be proprietary and have very tightly controlled editing policies. Typically, their content can only be edited by highly qual...