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 chronic problems of machine translation cannot be solved in a fully automatic way. Human intervention is inevitable. The development of "traditional" means in connexion with advances of computer technology represent most substantial contribution to further progress in the field of machine translation. Some of the problems are illustrated using the example of the APAC32 pro-

The aim of this paper is to analyse what strategies may be the most suitable ones when dealing with problems in the translation of a text on human trafficking. The focus of the study is how to translate terminology related to human trafficking, but also on how to deal with references to culture-specific phenomena. In order to find possible solutions for translation problems in the text, differe...

Word alignment is the basis of statistical machine translation. GIZA++ is a popular tool for producing word alignments and translation models. It uses a set of parameters that affect the quality of word alignments and translation models. These parameters exist to overcome some problems such as overfitting. This paper addresses the problem of tuning GIZA++ parameter for better translation qualit...

It is the most effective way for quick translation of tremendous amount of explosively increasing science and technique information material to develop a practicable machine translation system and introduce it into translation practice. This essay treats problems arising from translation of isolated units on the basis of the practical materials and experiments obtained in the development and in...

With the operational capability for large-scale machine translation on the immediate horizon, documentalists must become aware of what new problems they must face. The state of the art of machine translation is briefly reviewed. The magnitude of the translation problem is documented with data from the Soviet scientific and technical press. The parameters of input to a mechanized system; of tran...

this study was conducted to identify and compare the strategies applied by two native farsi translators in rendering the culture specific items (csis) of a literary text titled savushun in their english translations. in this study, csis refer to the materials, social customs, religious concepts, and traditions available in one language and culture but nonexistent in the other language and cultu...