Dostoevsky: Translation Problems

Dostoevsky and Stendhal's syndrome.

Stendhal's syndrome occurs among travelers when they encounter a work of art of great beauty. It is characterized by an altered perception of reality, emotional disturbances, and crises of panic and anxiety with somatization. The patient profile described originally for this syndrome was of particularly sensitive individuals who were admirers of works or art: artists, poets, writers and art stu...

The Karamazov complex: Dostoevsky and DNR orders.

Families making difficult end-of-life decisions in the intensive care unit often do not exercise their autonomy in accord with the individualistic philosophic and legal models that currently prevail. Instead, they try to avoid responsibility and deny complicity, even for decisions that they ultimately approve. This paper examines two novels and a recent case from a neonatal intensive care unit ...

On "Quality" in Translation Studies: issues and Problems

WEAK TRANSLATION PROBLEMS – A CASE STUDY OF SCRIPTURAL TRANSLATION Weak Translation Problems – a case study of Scriptural Translation

General purpose, high quality and fully automatic MT is believed to be impossible. We are interested in scriptural translation problems, which are weak sub-problems of the general problem of translation. We introduce the characteristics of the weak problems of translation and of the scriptural translation problems, describe different computational approaches (finite-state, statistical and hybri...

Problems of Machine Translation Evaluation

In this article we deal with general aspects of machine translation evaluation. We describe several commonly used methods of the evaluation and discuss their problems and shortcomings. Then we outline a few thoughts and ideas which try to solve mentioned problems and stand behind a design of a new method of machine translation evaluation.