Software engineers at Google have been delving into the world of automatic poetry translation. A paper entitled “Poetic” Statistical Machine Translation: Rhyme and Meter will be presented at the upcoming EMNLP (Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing) conference and shall address the progress made to date, the difficulties encountered and also discuss the necessary considerations…
Languages are certainly in the air this month! First there was the European Day of Languages, and on Thursday, it’s International Translation Day. The Translation People take a look at some of the events organised to celebrate the industry we all feel so passionately about. The patron saint of translators is St Jerome, who is…
The European Commission and the Council of Europe have designated September 26 as the European Day of Languages (EDL). The Translation People take a look at the origins of this exciting linguistic event, and cast an eye over the activities on offer. EDL’s objectives are to raise the profile of language learning, promote the use…
Engkoo is Microsoft’s web-based language learning and machine translation service. Launched in 2009, it is a free resource aimed at helping Mandarin Chinese speakers to learn English. It also doubles up as a translation tool with a range of features including a Chinese / English dictionary; downloadable audio and video files; bilingual Chinese-English text comparison;…
In a bid to increase access to languages in the run up to the Olympic Games, London taxi drivers and tourists alike will benefit from a new initiative announced this week in which some 3,000 London taxi drivers are to take part in language learning courses in Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish. In a…
FRL (French Radio London) is an exciting new radio station due to go on air in early November 2010. Aimed at listeners from London’s ‘Francophone and Francophile communities’, 80% of its playlist will be dedicated to French music and artists – all delivered by a team of London-based French presenters and contributing journalists from France…
A new terminology guide entitled An English-Irish Lexicon of Scientific and Technological Space-related Terminology has been published in collaboration with the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA). The IAA is an independent non-governmental organization that strives to promote ‘international scientific cooperation’ and under this remit, it provides a substantial range of specialist multilingual literature. In 2010,…
If you are interested in Polish news and culture, then you may already have heard of Scotsbarszc – Scotland’s online magazine for all things Polish. Launched in December 2009, it has built an impressive online following from Polish people living in Scotland and beyond; and English-speakers who are interested in keeping up-to-date with Polish news…
Moscow hosted Russia’s first International Congress of Translators at the beginning of September 2010, which took place at the heart of the Moscow International Book Fair. Topics included ‘untranslatable texts’, common translation issues, improving the public’s view of translators, and the establishment of the country’s first ‘Translators’ House’. In an article in The Telegraph, Ekaterina…
The increasing number of pupils entering the UK education system whose first language is not English can translate into a language barrier in the classroom that is extremely difficult to overcome, both for teachers and children alike. That is why a Birmingham school (whose student population speaks over 30 languages) has employed the services of…
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