Abstract In the seventeenth-century missionary context of South India, Jesuit Roberto Nobili (1577–1656) engaged in a multi-directional process translation, translating his Catholic mission, doctrine, and literature for Tamil audience adapting it to local beliefs, practices, Roman context. Adopting theories from translation studies (Frege, Nida, Lefevere Venuti), this paper suggests model “cult...

Movies are everyday entertainment for people in their daily lives. There a lot of foreign movies that being played Indonesian theatres. Unfortunately, there many places where watch the movie with subtitles not created by professional translators. The Social Network was translated more than one translator. This research conducted to analyze how accurate translation is and what similarities diffe...

Everyday the newswire introduce events from all over the world, highlighting new names of persons, locations and organizations with different origins. These names appear as Out of Vocabulary (OOV) words for Machine translation, cross lingual information retrieval, and many other NLP applications. One way to deal with OOV words is to transliterate the unknown words, that is, to render them in th...

For a long time the pivotal point of foreign language teaching, translation has been banned from the language classroom for quite a while. Moreover, it has been a frequent object of ridicule by those eager to demonstrate their uncompromising allegiance to modern ways. Nevertheless, it has displayed a remarkable resilience (whether this was necessitated by hard facts of real life, or is the resu...

Several preprocessing techniques using syntactic information and linguistically motivated rules have been proposed to improve the quality of phrase-based machine translation (PBMT) output. On the other hand, there has been little work on similar techniques in the context of other translation formalisms such as syntax-based SMT. In this paper, we examine whether the sort of rule-based syntactic ...

Translation related issues have been explored since times immemorial in various societies of the world. Transferring language-based knowledge systems and experiences an exclusive faculty human species. Paraphrasing vs metaphrasing translating texts important concerns translators while expressing thoughts language into another language. Should there be a politics these two approaches being appli...