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...

the theme of this article is about structural analysis of one of khayyam’s quatrains and also a review and critique on two different russian translations of it. first we will provide a linguistic analysis of this quatrain on the basis of its form and content structures. then we will go through a review and criticise these two different translations. khayyam, one of iran’s poets, who had so many...

Current system combination methods usually use confusion networks to find consensus translations among different systems. Requiring one-to-one mappings between the words in candidate translations, confusion networks have difficulty in handling more general situations in which several words are connected to another several words. Instead, we propose a lattice-based system combination model that ...

SOL (Suda On Line) is a collaborative internet-based project involving dozens of researchers to transform the Suda, a 10th-century Byzantine Greek historical encyclopedia, into a searchable electronic text in English translation. The text will include SGML tags to delimit content such as personal names, places, and treatises and will also contain bibliographic and other references, many of whic...

Automatic metrics for the evaluation of machine translation (MT) compute scores that characterize globally certain aspects of MT quality such as adequacy and fluency. This paper introduces a reference-based metric that is focused on a particular class of function words, namely discourse connectives, of particular importance for text structuring, and rather challenging for MT. To measure the acc...