UNLABELLED Theories of translation differ in the role assigned to the reformulation process. One view, the "horizontal" approach, considers that translation involves on-line searches for matches between linguistic entries in the two languages involved [Gerver, D. (1976). Empirical studies of simultaneous interpretation: A review and a model. In R. W. Brislin (Ed.), Translation: Applications and...

Translating unknown words between related languages using a character-based statistical machine translation model can be beneficial. In this paper, we describe a simple method to combine character-based models with standard word-based models to increase the coverage of a phrase-based SMT system. Using this approach, we can show a modest improvement when translating between Norwegian and Swedish...

In this paper we present our experiences in building Statistical Machine Translation (SMT) systems for the Indian Language pair Marathi and Hindi, which are close cousins. We briefly point out the similarities and differences between the two languages, stressing on the phenomenon of Krudantas (Verb Groups) translation, which is something Rule based systems are not able to do well. Marathi, bein...

Action on climate change continues to be hampered by vested interests seeding doubt about science and the need reduce carbon emissions. Using a qualitative case study of local adaptation sea level rise, we show how is translated into self-referential theory focused property prices. Our analysis develops two mechanisms – enablement theorization explain relationship between performativity power w...

In this paper we present an SMT-based approach to Question Answering (QA). QA is the task of extracting exact answers in response to natural language questions. In our approach, the answer is a translation of the question obtained with an SMT system. We use the n-best translations of a given question to find similar sentences in the document collection that contain the real answer. Although it ...

While automatic metrics of translation quality are invaluable for machine translation research, deeper understanding of translation errors require more focused evaluations designed to target specific aspects of translation quality. We show that Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) can be used to evaluate the quality of machine translation lexical choice, by applying a standard phrase-based SMT syste...

This paper used medical interpreting as an example to examine the recent attention to the communicative nature of translation and interpretation. In presenting the historical development of community interpreting, I examined the reasons why the communicative aspect of translation and interpretation has been ignored in the traditional translation studies. The recent research on community interpr...

In this paper we develop a theory of translation groups for dimensional dual hyperovals and APN functions. It will be seen that both theories can be treated, to a large degree, simultaneously. For small ambient spaces it will be shown that the translation groups are normal in the automorphism group of the respective geometric object. For large ambient spaces there may be more than one translati...