Italiam! Italiam! Language – interpretation – translation

Learning speech translation from interpretation

Globalization spurs the need for cross-lingual verbal communication. This is reflected in ongoing research in the field of speech translation. However, the development of deployable speech translation systems still happens only for a handful of languages. Prohibitively high costs attached to the acquisition of sufficient amounts of suitable training data are one of the main reasons for this sit...

Translation, Interpretation and Intercultural Communication

Recent trends in Translation Studies advocate a focus on translation as a form of intercultural communication. Yet in some cases there seems to be a lack of awareness as regards the theoretical problems involved in every cultural approach to translation. The aim of this article is to highlight some aspects of these problems by bringing to the fore the interconnections between the question of tr...

Translation and Monotonic Interpretation/generation

Certificate Translation in Abstract Interpretation

A certificate is a mathematical object that can be used to establish that a piece of mobile code satisfies some security policy. Since in general certificates cannot be generated automatically, there is an interest in developing methods to reuse certificates. This article formalises in the setting of abstract interpretation a method to transform certificates of program correctness along program...

The Language Translation Interface

The Language Translation Interface (LTI) is a prototype developed for the Australian Defence Organisation. The aim is provide a single, simple, interface to a variety of MT tools and utilities for personnel who need to produce translations when they have no easy access to human translators. Now that the LTI has been demonstrated and trialled at several military exercises, we are gathering user ...