9781108423274

1108423272

9781108534406

"Empirical translation studies is a rapidly evolving research area. This volume, written by world-leading researchers, demonstrates the integration of two new research paradigms: socially-oriented and data driven approaches to empirical translation studies. These two models expand current translation studies and stimulate reader debates around how development of quantitative research methods and integration with advances in translation technologies would significantly increase the research capacities of translation studies. Highly engaging, the volume pioneers the development of socially-oriented innovative research methods to enhance the current research capacities of theoretical (descriptive) translation studies in order to tackle real-life research issues, such as environmental protection and multicultural health promotion. Illustrative case studies are used, bringing insight into advanced research methodologies of designing, developing and analysing large scale digital databases for multilingual and/or translation research"-- Provided by publisher.

"Within the disciplinary framework devised by early translation studies scholars, the division between the descriptive and the applied research schemes has influenced the interaction and the cross-fertilisation of ideas and methodologies between the two research paradigms. For a long time after the circulation of the disciplinary map, descriptive research has been largely driven by intellectual efforts to verify or contest theoretical assumptions such as translation universal patterns, norms and laws, whereas the applied branch continues to evolve as the global translation industry which thrives and diversifies amidst intensified intercultural and inter-lingual communication at modern industrial scales"-- Provided by publisher.

Preface / Meng Ji and Michael Oakes

Advances in empirical translation studies / Meng Ji

Development of empirical multilingual analytical instruments / Meng Ji

Statistics for corpus-based and corpus-driven approaches to empirical translation studies / Michael Oakes

The evolving treatment of semantics in machine translation / Mark Seligman

Translating and disseminating World Health Organization drinking-water quality guidelines in Japan / Meng Ji, Glenn Hook and Fukumoto Fumiyo

Developing multilingual automatic semantic annotation systems / Laura Löfberg and Paul Rayson

Leveraging large corpora for translation using the sketch engine / Sara Moze and Simon Krek

Developing computerised health translation readability evaluation tools / Meng Ji and Zhaoming Gao

Reordering techniques in Japanese and English machine translation / Masaaki Nagata

Audiovisual translation in mercurial mediascapes / Jorge Díaz-Cintas

Exploiting data-driven hybrid approaches to translation in the EXPERT project / Constantin Orăsan, Carla Parra Escartín, Lianet Sepúlveda Torres and Eduard Barbu

Advances in speech-to-speech translation technologies / Mark Seligman and Alex Waibel

Challenges and opportunities of empirical translation studies / Meng Ji and Michael Oakes.

Translating and interpreting > Research > Methodology.

Machine translating > Research > Methodology.

Translating and interpreting > Research > Methodology.