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Welcome to the official website for the UMass Translation Center. Please feel free to have a look around. If you are a student, you will likely find what you are looking for in the Academics section. If you are seeking translation or interpreting services, you will find the information you need in the Services section. And regarding Donations, we have good news: we are pleased to announce that our fundraising drive to rennovate the language/interpreting lab was successful; Dean Joel Martin has promised to match all donations to help us realize our $40,000 fundraising goal.  Our sincere thanks to all those who contributed.

About

The Translation Center at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst is a unique enterprise that combines business services with academics. By keeping up with the latest in training and research, we find that we can offer higher quality translations to our clients.

In sum, the Translation Center blends academics and service in a dynamic fashion that keeps the Center on the cutting edge of the field. Research influences training, which in turn impacts service, and vice versa. All combine to improve the skills of our translators, who then can better serve our clients and meet your communication needs.

News

Keep your eye on Google Translate

We at the Translation Center have never been a supporter of machine translation and have always advocated the use of humans, but I have to admit that we have been following Google Translate closely.
Traditional machine translation programs use a decode/recode methodology, with programmers teaching the machines the syntactic and lexical rules of grammar in the [...]