This article explores the ways in which figure of translator-detective contemporary Russian literature functions to express and neutralize a range fears anxieties engendered by post-Soviet transition. Tracing roots motif translator back F. M. Dostoevsky ’s Crime Punishment, paper then examines translator-hero detective fiction best-selling authors Aleksandra Marinina, Boris Akunin, Dar’ia Donts...

Microkernels and virtual machine monitors are both utilized as platforms for running operating systems. Although there are many similarities in their designs and features, they have opposite advantages and drawbacks. A microkernel based system is highly portable. However, the interface it exposes is inflexible and incompatible with other real hardware interfaces. In contrast, a virtual machine ...

This paper presents the Linguatec submission to the WMT 2011 sixth workshop on statistical machine translation. It describes the architecture of our machine translation system ‘Personal Translator’ (hereinafter also referred to as PT), developed by Linguatec, which is a rule-based translation system, enriched by statistical approaches. We participate for the German-English translation direction...