Literary translation, among other types of projects a lot challenges for translators especially those dealing with disparate languages like Arabic and English. This study investigates the English translation two short stories by Iraqi writer Karim Abid. The highlights main challenges: linguistic cultural. cites illustrative examples where points misunderstanding original text, mistranslation, l...

We describe the Sogou neural machine translation systems for the WMT 2017 Chinese↔English news translation tasks. Our systems are based on a multilayer encoder-decoder architecture with attention mechanism. The best translation is obtained with ensemble and reranking techniques. We also propose an approach to improve the named entity translation problem. Our Chinese→English system achieved the ...

More and more researchers have recognized the potential value of the parallel corpus in the research on Machine Translation and Machine Aided Translation. This paper examines how Chinese English translation units could be extracted from parallel corpus. An iterative algorithm based on degree of word association is proposed to identify the multiword units for Chinese and English. Then the Chines...

Despite the concern over the loss of poetic images in the translation process, the translation practice of poetry never ceases. As the result of different approaches to the poetic imagery, the poetic images might be preserved, lost or replaced by others. The hermeneutic approach, with a view to preserving the alterity of an alien culture, would like the original image to be preserved as much as...

We developed a two-stage machine translation (MT) system. The first stage consists of an automatically created pattern-based machine translation system, and the second stage consists of a standard statistical machine translation (SMT) system. For French-English machine translation, we first used a French-English pattern-based MT, and we obtained ”English” sentences from French sentences. Second...

Background Implementing effective interventions in healthcare requires organizations to be ready to support change. This study aimed to develop, adapt transculturally, and assess the content and face validity of the Organizational Readiness for Knowledge Translation (OR4KT) tool. The OR4KT was designed to measure the readiness of healthcare organizations to implement evidence-informed change ac...

This article depicts the current state of art English-language audiovisual translation (AVT) and sheds light on recent changes impacting media localisation practices, viewing patterns, viewer agency. The motivations that have catapulted practices like subtitling dubbing into English video-on-demand (VOD) platforms are considered, special emphasis is placed move from content to production distri...