The volume is a collection of papers that deal with the issue of translation quality from a number of perspectives. It addresses the quality of human translation and machine translation, of pragmatic and literary translation, of translations done by students and by professional translators. Quality is not merely looked at from a linguistic point of view, but the wider context of QA in the translation workflow also gets ample attention.
The authors take an inductive approach: the papers are based on the analysis of translation data and/or on hands-on experience. The book provides a...
The volume is a collection of papers that deal with the issue of translation quality from a number of perspectives. It addresses the quality of hum...
The interdependency of technology and communication presents theoreticians as well as practitioners with a wide range of problems. Among the topics discussed in this interdisciplinary volume are: technological knowledge in text and context in combination with cognitive and social conditions, knowledge transfer beyond languages and cultures, the influence of the world wide web on social communities.
The interdependency of technology and communication presents theoreticians as well as practitioners with a wide range of problems. Among the topics...
The book specifies a corpus architecture, including annotation and querying techniques, and its implementation. The corpus architecture is developed for empirical studies of translations, and beyond those for the study of texts which are inter-lingually comparable, particularly texts of similar registers. The compiled corpus, CroCo, is a resource for research and is, with some copyright restrictions, accessible to other research projects. Most of the research was undertaken as part of a DFG-Project into linguistic properties of translations. Fundamentally, this research...
The book specifies a corpus architecture, including annotation and querying techniques, and its implementation. The corpus architecture is develope...
