Crowdsourcing makes it possible to create translations at much lower cost than hiring professional translators. However, it is still expensive to obtain the millions of translations that are needed to train statistical machine translation systems. We propose two mechanisms to reduce the cost of crowdsourcing while maintaining high translation quality. First, we develop a method to reduce redund...

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...

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...

This study aimed to investigate translators‟ approach in dealing with culture-specific items (CSI) in translation of fantasy fiction for children. For this purpose, the culture-specific items in Persian translations of John Ronald Reuel Tolkien‟s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit as well as Lewis‟s The Chronicles of Narnia were taken into consideration. Since children have limited amount of ...

The notion of a translator's workstation has been widely discussed at various points in the history of translation and computers, and a number of tools and language resources have been proposed for inclusion in it, ranging from general purpose text-editing facilities, to tools designed specifically for translators, such as translation memory and terminology management software. This paper repor...

Language professionals play an important role in an increasingly multilingual society where people commonly do not sufficiently understand all languages used in their environment. While there are many translation environment tools (TEnTs) available to support translators in their tasks, there is evidence that these tools are not used to their full potential. Within the context of a broad resear...

Introduction. We are developing an online translation aid tool that provides enhanced language reference tools, specifically designed for translators working online. This paper introduces the concepts and framework for enhancing and organising the reference tools to maximally help translators. Method. This paper is an essentially theoretical work, resorting to deduction from basic premises on l...

The article is trying to highlight the major skills of a presentday translator, without which failure is assured. Although we start with general (classical) requirements, particular ones will be discussed, such as the gradual shift from PRAT (paper-and-rubber-assisted translation) to CAT (computer-assisted translation). We argue that professional translators in the 21st century must make use of...

as the most significant religious resource for muslims, quran has always attracted the attention of many muslim and non-muslim scholars. so far many translators, with various intentions, have translated this holy book. a group of these translators pretended to be muslims, while in fact they were strong enemies of islam, and their real intention was to change the realities of this holy book and ...