Translator Attitudes towards Translator-Computer Interaction - Findings from a Workplace Study

Characteristics of Competent Translator Trainers From the Viewpoint of Expert Iranian Translator Trainers: A Qualitative Study

In this study, the directed (deductive) content analysis approach was adopted to explore the components of translator trainers’ competencies through in-depth individual semistructured interviews conducted with 10 expert Iranian translator trainers at different universities around Iran. Theoretical model was the translator trainer profile proposed by The European Master’s in Translation (EMT) Gr...

The Translator as a Computer User

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...

A Parametric NL Translator

This report outlines a machine translation system whose linguistic component is based on principles of Government and Binding. A "universal grammar" is defined, together with pal-ameters of variation for specific languages. The system, written in Prolog, parses, generates, and translates between English and Spanish (both directions).

A Universal Braille Translator

iState: A Statechart Translator

We describe formal steps in the design of iState, a tool for translating statecharts into programming languages. Currently iState generates code in either Pascal, Java, or the Abstract Machine Notation of the B method. The translation proceeds in several phases. The focus of this paper is the formal description of the intermediate representations, for which we use class diagrams together with t...