regarding the fact that many of the verses in the holy quran have been expressed in the form of condensation, the transfer of its very sense is an important issue in translations. this paper examines two old (sourabadi and meybodi) and six contemporary (ayati, elahi qomshei, ansari, saffarzadeh, fouladvand & makarem shirazi) persian translations of the holy quran and assesses the way in which t...

The present study aimed to develop and validate an instrument measure Iranian translators’ book selection criteria (TBSC). A mixed-methods approach was adopted conduct the research. During qualitative phase, researchers developed first draft of questionnaire by generating items through focus groups literature review. This led constructing a 40-item closed-ended ranging on 6-point Likert scale f...

In recent years, a large amount of work has been done in the field of computational linguistics which should be of immediate interest to translators, and perhaps also to interpreters. It is the purpose of this paper to bring to the attention of professional linguists the usefulness of, and benefit to be derived from, work currently in progress in this field, and to allay the wariness and scepti...

Machine-translated segments are increasingly included as fuzzy matches within the translation-memory systems in the localisation workflow. This study presents preliminary results on the correlation between these two types of segments in terms of productivity and final quality. In order to test these variables, we set up an experiment with a group of eight professional translators using an on-li...

A new framework for a system that aids online volunteer translators is proposed. As regards this proposal, first, the current status and conditions of online volunteer translators and their translation environments are examined, and general requirements for a system that would aid these translators are given. Our proposed approach for dealing with heterogeneous data, which involves providing a ...

This paper describes the QT21 project from the perspective of the International Federation of Translators (FIT) in three main parts. Firstly, six of the ways that humans currently relate with machine translation (MT) systems will be outlined, leading up to a seventh way that will be discussed in more detail. Huge volumes of texts need to be translated in different sectors of the economy globall...

Freelance translators today have at their disposal an ever-increasing array of online tools and language resources, including search engines, electronic mail, dictionaries, document archives, and terminology databases. A survey of working practices has been conducted among UK translators, with responses received to date from around 400 freelancers. Included in the survey was an investigation of...

Translation Environment Tools make translators' work easier by providing them with term lists, translation memories and machine translation output. Ideally, such tools automatically predict whether it is more effortful to post-edit than to translate from scratch, and determine whether or not to provide translators with machine translation output. Current machine translation quality estimation s...