In this article the possible effects of the translation technologies on the critical thinking and translation ability of the students of the Translation Studies would be studied through a pre-experimental method of research. The participants of this research were thirty one Iranian senior Translation Studies students at the age group of 20-26 who were selected based on their age, educational...

This paper describes N, an open source statistical machine translation (SMT) toolkit for translation models estimated as n-gram language models of bilingual units (tuples). This toolkit includes tools for extracting tuples, estimating models and performing translation. It can be easily coupled to several other open source toolkits to yield a complete SMT pipeline. In this article, we review...

In this survey brief historical review of natural language processing and machine translation in Japan is given first. This is followed by an explanation of a few typical research results in the morphological and syntactic analyses of the Japanese language. Machine translation has been getting the spotlight once again in Japan. Two research results are explained in some detail. One is the machi...

Appraisal theory (AT) is developed from Systemic Functional Linguistics. It focuses on the interpersonal meaning of text, which expresses speaker’s attitude and constructs ideological space. However, AT has quite lately in translation studies with certain achievements as well limitations previous studies. Thus, this study conducted a literature review to generalize status quo applying 2011 2021...

Abstract Translation is a process which needs concentration and a relaxed mind. Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder which causes the patients to repeat something continuously so that it is done in the best way. As both translation and OCD are mental processes, this study has investigated the relation between these two mental processes. For this purpose, at first Oxford Plac...