Since the 1970s, Translation Studies have embraced skills and competences for the mapping of translation as a complex and specialised type of knowledge. A number of authors within TS have already extensively reviewed and analysed most of the existing translation and/or translator competence models, i.e., competence models literature reviews by Campbell (1998); Schäffner (2000); Kelly (2002); Py...

Description Recent research in translator training has shown the importance of bringing the actual translation situation into the teaching setup (Kiraly, 2000). As most real-world translations are carried out not on a personal basis but on a project basis, this implies that trainees need to gain competence not only in translation in its narrower sense but also in how to play a role in, carry ou...

Concept classification has been proven to be a useful translation method for speech-to-speech translation applications. However, preparing training data for classifier is a cumbersome task for human annotators. An unsupervised training method is introduced here that is based on utterance clustering. A technique to measure the distance between two utterances, based on the concepts they express, ...