Whew! This has been an exciting year for translation studies, with a flurry of conference activity, and, surprise, the field seems to have finally arrived in the United States.
I have been very busy, giving papers at over a dozen venues, from distinguished lectures and keynote addresses to papers on panel discussions. For me, the highlight [...]
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 [...]
“The Tasks of Translation in the Global Context” was the presidential theme this year at the Modern Language Association (MLA) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, Dec. 27-30, 2009. Catherine Porter, MLA President, Professor in Humanities at Cornell, and translator of contemporary French philosophy, including the works of Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, and Jean-Didier Urbain, [...]
A new report by the Inspector General at the U.S. Department of Justice reveals that translation issues still trouble the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI). While the FBI has translated and reviewed 100% of the written texts it has collected, there are huge backlogs in terms of translation of electronic and audio files: 31% of [...]
A Civil Rights Complaint filed on behalf of Make the Road New York alleging that pharmacies in the state of New York were providing inadequate translation and interpreting services for non and limited-English speaking customers has been settled.
According to Global Watchtower, in April 2009, seven pharmacies, including A&P, Costco, CVS, Target, Wal-mart, Duane Reade, and [...]