Many projects are conducted to develop multilingual lexical databases. Some of these projects use an interlingual approach (KBMT-89, EDR, ...), where others choose a bilingual approach (Multilex, ...). This paper presents an interlingual approach based on acceptions (word-senses) aiming at the development of a multilingual lexical database management system: NADIA. With this approach, the inter...

Machine translation has been a particularly difficult problem in the area of Natural Language Processing for over two decades. Early approaches to translation failed in part because interaction effects of complex phenomena made translation appear to be unmanageable. Later approaches to the problem have succeeded but are based on many language-specific rules. To capture all natural language phen...

Subtitling for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) is an area which deserves a special attention as it ena- bles these people to access to the part of the ‘world’ intended for hearing people, including the world of ‘motion pictures’, and particularly movie sounds. Compared to linguistic sounds, non-linguistic sounds have received little attention in the field of translation, although they are in...

The first part of this paper considers some of the reasons why mechanical translation via a logically formalized interlingua is worth pursuing. The interlingua described consists of a network of bonded semantic elements, the bonds being either homogeneous, corresponding to a generalized notion of qualification, or heterogeneous, for dyadic relations. The translation procedure involves a basic p...

Audio-visual translation (AVT) has grown significantly as a field in the studies. AVT subfields are dubbing and subtitling. This study aims to investigate viewers’ reactions toward subtitling of English animated movie, Cars, from into Arabic. The is quantitative. An online questionnaire was administered elicit viewer’s chosen movie. showed strong evidence that works dubbed Egyptian dialect more...

This article examines how humour in Arabic stand-up comedies is translated into English an audio-visual context. The study uses a case of streamed on Netflix, including Live from Beirut by Adel Karam and Comedians the World/ Middle East. shows which are subtitled involve variety Arab comedians speaking different dialects, Levant dialect (Lebanese, Jordanian, Palestinian) Gulf particularly Saudi...

The current paper presents a study on the subtitling for deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH) in Spanish TV news programs (live semi-live subtitling). aim of this reception is to analyze users’ comprehension assessment live SDH. A contemporary corpus comprising items from real broadcasts was used research, sample 52 participants recruited experiment, which carried out through variety virtual sessions...

This paper describes a multi-level design, i.e., a non-uniform approach to interlingual machine translation (MT), in which distinct representational languages are used for diierent types of knowledge. We demonstrate that a linguistically-motivated \division of labor" across multiple representation levels has not complicated, but rather has readily facilitated, the identiication and construction...

This paper presents a method for creating interlingual wordto-word or phrase-to-phrase mappings between any two languages using the self-organizing map algorithm. The method can be used as a component in a statistical machine translation system. The conceptual space created by the self-organizing map serves as a kind of interlingual representation. The specific problems of machine translation a...