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The new version of Kilgray’s translation memory tool MemoQ 4.0 is released.
Its creator Gábor Ugray discloses some of the new features:
MemoQ 4.0 is designed to co-exist with 3.6 on the same PC. Just run the new installer, and you can pick which version to open. TMs and TBs are fully exchangeable, i.e., you can use [...]
Now, the new SDL Trados Studio 2009 supports WorldServer project packages (WSXZ files). This is done by an optional plugin which needs to be downloaded and installed separately.
You can download the new SDL WorldServer Translation installer from SDL’s Translationzone website.
You may also find useful the guide: Introduction to Idiom WorldServer Desktop Workbench for Trados Users [...]
An excellent resource for British versus American English. British English A to Zed is a comprehensive guide to everyday English spoken on the other side of the Atlantic. General readers and language lovers alike will have immediate access to an alphabetical listing of more than 5,500 “Briticisms” and their correlating “Americanisms” in this fully revised and updated volume. Featured in this edition are several hundred new entries; lively discussions of British language, pronunciation, punctuation, style, usage, and culture; and special sections on units of measure, automotive terms, cricket terms, and more. For readers, travelers, and Anglophiles everywhere, this entertaining and authoritative resource is a cultural delight.
Earlier this year Language Technology Centre Ltd conducted a study on behalf of the Directorate General for Translation of the European Commission (DGT) on the size of the language industry in the European Union (see my post »»»here«««).
Now the study is over and a report is issued.
The study report gives an ample picture of the [...]
Learning Machine Translation (Neural Information Processing)
The Internet gives us access to a wealth of information in languages we don’t understand. The investigation of automated or semi-automated approaches to translation has become a thriving research field with enormous commercial potential. This volume investigates how machine learning techniques can improve statistical machine translation, currently at the forefront of research in the field.
The book looks first at enabling technologies—technologies that solve problems that are not machine translation proper but are linked closely to the development of a machine translation system. These include the acquisition of bilingual sentence-aligned data from comparable corpora, automatic construction of multilingual name dictionaries, and word alignment. The book then presents new or improved statistical machine translation techniques, including a discriminative training framework for leveraging syntactic information, the use of semi-supervised and kernel-based learning methods, and the combination of multiple machine translation outputs in order to improve overall translation quality.
The Translation Studies Reader
This definitive collection is the first comprehensive reader on the fast-growing field of translation studies. Concentrating on the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the past thirty years, Lawrence Venuti has chosen a wide range of readings on translation, placing each selection within its social, thematic, and historical context. The Reader is divided into five chronological sections, with each section prefaced by an introductory essay, a detailed bibliography and suggestions for further reading. The Reader also features a new essay by Lawrence Venuti on the future of Translation Studies.
Between Text and Image
Updating research in screen translation
Editors: Delia Chiaro, Christine Heiss and Chiara Bucaria
Publisher: John Benjamins, 2008
ISBN: 9027216878
Over the past decade interest in research on screen translation has increased sharply while at the same time fast moving technological breakthroughs are continually modifying and renewing both products and well-established methods of linguistic mediation. Thus, as [...]
Performing Without a Stage: The Art of Literary Translation
Author: Robert Wechsler
Publisher: Catbird Press (May 1, 1998)
ISBN: 0945774389
A lively and comprehensive introduction to the art of literary translation for readers of foreign fiction and poetry who wonder what it takes to translate, how the art of literary translation has changed over the centuries, what problems translators [...]
The European Commission has published the list of university programmes that have been selected to join the “European Master’s in Translation ” (EMT) network, following a call in March this year.
For more information and a list of translation programmes read further >>>
Translating and Interpreting Conflict
The relationship between translation and conflict is highly relevant in today’s globalised and fragmented world, and this is attracting increased academic interest. This collection of essays was inspired by the first international conference to directly address the translator and interpreter s involvement in situations of military and ideological conflict, and its representation in fiction. The collection adopts an interdisciplinary approach, and the contributors to the volume bring to bear a variety of perspectives informed by media studies, historiography, literary scholarship and self-reflective interpreting and translation practice. The reader is presented with compelling case studies of the embeddedness of translators and interpreters, either on the ground or as portrayed in fiction, and of their roles in mediating, memorizing or rewriting conflict. The theoretical reflection which the essays generate regarding mediation and neutrality, ethical involvement and responsibility, and the implications for translator and interpreter training, will be of interest to researchers in translation, interpreting, media, intercultural and postcolonial studies.
