Knowledge distillation is a representative approach in neural machine translation (NMT) for compressing large model into lightweight one. This first trains strong teacher model, and then forces more compact student to imitate the teacher. Although key successful knowledge constructing stronger using state-of-the-art NMT may remain inadequate owing errors. Accordingly, an severely degrades due e...

The main priority for university translation educators is to improve the quality and outcomes of translation courses. To achieve such a goal, the instructors are required to integrate learners' needs, identified with the help of a needs survey, into syllabus content. Accordingly, the present study was conducted to identify the Iranian English majors' difficulties in translating English texts si...

The present study sought to investigate the translation strategies in an American sitcom in Iranian EFLclasses with emphasis on politeness. The participants were 50 male and female Iranian undergraduateB.A. and M.A. students majoring in English Translation, and English language teaching at the IslamicAzad University, North Tehran. The participants were administered three tests. A multiple choic...