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Until very recently instantaneous translation tools have been confined to Sci-Fi television.
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Is Translation Tech Really ‘Breaking Language Barriers’? 
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Sound / Writing: On Homophonic Translation Via Charles Tiayon
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Sound / Writing: On Homophonic Translation
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Mercredi 5 octobre 2016, les membres du jury du Grand prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles ont désigné le lauréat 2016. C’est Mathieu Dosse pour sa nouvelle traduction (portugais – Brésil) de Mon Oncle le jaguar et autres histoires de João Guimarães Rosa (éditions Chandeigne) qui l’emporte. La remise de prix aura lieu lors de la 33e édition des Assises de la traduction littéraire à Arles, vendredi 11 novembre, à la Chapelle du Méjan. Via Charles Tiayon
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Mathieu Dosse lauréat du Grand prix de traduction de la Ville d’Arles 2016 | ATLAS (Association pour la promotion de la traduction littéraire)
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When text is rendered by a computer that lacks the characters to display it, the interface shows up little outlined squares. These “tofu” signify the absence of a digital character, but thanks to Google and Monotype, this phenomenon is a thing of the past. “There’s been a change happening in infrastructure for the last 20 years or so,” says Kamal Mansour, a linguistic typographer based at Monotype in San Francisco. “The Unicode standard now includes codes for the characters of every script, every writing system that has been perfected and submitted. For example, in the case of Burmese, it has been in the standard for 15 years or so, but the country hadn’t opened up, so there wasn’t much demand for it. Now that the country’s opening up much more, there are more and more fonts being created, and more details being paid attention to. “On the other hand there have been minority languages that have never been listed in the Unicode standard. There’s a certain process by which someone can collect all the necessary characters, documents, and submit a proposal to the Unicode technical committee. Once you have codes assigned to the characters you can represent any language that’s written in that particular script.” Mansour’s team, in collaboration with Google, has just released the first version of an open-source family of typefaces that bring together all the known languages of the world, living and dead. Noto is the largest typographic project of its kind, encompassing over 800 languages, 100 different scripts, musical notation, punctuation, and of course, emoji. “You cannot really represent your culture, your heritage, digitally unless you have unique codes for every character that you use,” says Mansour. “For English and the European languages in general this has been available for decades, but for some of these minority languages it’s fairly recent.” Google + Monotype, Noto Groups like the Cherokee Nation in the United States are working hard to preserve their language and teach it to younger generations to ensure its survival. “Being digital is really important to that,” says Google’s Bob Jung, “because all the devices that their kids are using can actually be operated in their native language. We need these languages to be ready for our devices, but Google has always taken this attitude that the more information is available to people the better it is, and I think we want to encourage the culture of preservation of all of these languages, and the information that’s recorded in all of them.” For minority languages Noto represents an opportunity to digitally preserve their cultural and linguistic history, forming records of traditions that would otherwise be lost. The investment in such a benevolent, open-source project has been colossal, with dedicated teams at Google and Monotype working in collaboration for over five years. So far they’ve produced a “sans serif” family that’s almost complete, a “serif” family still very much in development, and now have the additional challenge of rendering all of this in up to eight different weights. For Mansour, it’s career-defining work. “My background is mixed, design, linguistics, and computer science,” he says. “The amount of information that I’ve learned through this project is really overwhelming. I could not have asked for anything better.” Google + Monotype, Noto Producing Noto required an extraordinary depth of research from Mansour, Jung, and both of their teams, filling in gaps in the Unicode system and in many cases creating the first digital typeface for a given language. In the case of Tibetan, this required translating a script with thousands of years of calligraphic heritage into a series of anchor points and terminals on screen. To facilitate its production Mansour and designer Toshi Omagari, worked closely with a team of Buddhist monks. “The Tibetan script has been coded in the Unicode standard since early on,” says Mansour. “What hasn’t happened for Tibetan is the development of a type of graphic style and typographic point of view. Everything has been calligraphic until the very recent decades. Even typefaces people have created for Tibetan in the last 10 to 15 years have all looked exactly like one calligraphic style or the other. In this case Toshi’s ambition was to present something in a contemporary typographic style that still maintains various traditional features that spring from the calligraphic tradition, but to meld those two together so that it would be pleasing and accessible to the native mind. “We had access to this monastery in Japan only because we knew the manager. It came out as a very interesting coincidence and collaboration. He and Toshi had a chance to exchange lots of ideas and collect background before coming up with something final. We presented one early proposal to Google and the various reviewers had refused it—they thought it looked too bulky and wasn’t considerate of their tradition. In the design that Toshi produced afterwards, they found Toshi’s contemporary proposal pleasing, which is really quite an achievement. The proof is the approval of these monks.” Elsewhere the project has led to the evolution of existing alphabets, not just in digitizing what was previously hand-drawn, but by creating new parameters within which different cases might be used. The Cherokee alphabet had existed in Unicode for over a decade, but had been coded on the assumption that it would function only in lower case. While working on Noto, the Cherokee decided they needed provision for an upper case too, meaning Mansour and his team had to create a whole new case of letters from scratch. “What differs greatly from script to script is that some are already so well documented that we can find references fairly easily,” says Mansour. “For others it’s an empty hole. Sometimes the available sources might be very old, and it’s hard to know whether they’d be appropriate for modern usage.” The question of appropriateness is one that’s also been raised in relation to the sans serif and serif versions of Noto. The serif is a form particular to the Latin typographic tradition, and difficult to impose upon eastern and calligraphic scripts. Homogenizing these alphabets to conform to western type standards was something Mansour and his team were keen to avoid, and so the“serif” version of Noto has simply been rendered as the more formal of the two. “Very often the distinction is translated as formal and informal. The sans would be informal and the serif would be formal. If you were to examine some of the Indian scripts like Urdu, and look at the serif version in comparison to the sans you would notice the shift from informal to formal. Obviously Urdu does not have a real serif, but the formal has sharp terminals, classic looking angles, and so on.” For Mansour the creation of Noto has been the work of a lifetime, and an undertaking from which he seems still to be reeling: “It really is shocking. The amount of work that comes out of this is incredible. I saw my designer colleagues overwhelmed; the amount of detail that’s involved in making point compatible design across the board is extraordinary, and without everybody’s hands the ship would go down.” Via Charles Tiayon
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Google and Monotype Unite to Digitize all the Languages of Humanity
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Faut-il faire évoluer le régime linguistique et introduire le luxembourgeois en tant que première langue officielle, comme le suggère la pétition publique 698? Paperjam.lu a posé la question aux représentants et responsables des groupes politiques à la Chambre et leur a laissé carte blanche en guise de réponse. Voici celle d'Alex Bodry, président de la fraction LSAP. Via Charles Tiayon
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« Le piège d’un dogmatisme linguistique »
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La chaîne franco-allemande se met au “fansubbing”, afin de permettre à ses émissions de circuler dans toute l’Europe. Et les professionnels s’en inquiètent. Via Charles Tiayon
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Quand Arte teste le sous-titrage collaboratif, les pros se rebiffent
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Well! Someone might assume that translation is just converting from one language to another because he speaks two languages, that assumption is only true for someone who really trained as a translator in a specific translation field and majoring in...
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Can bilingualism be enough for translation?
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Translators without Borders envisions a world where knowledge knows no language barriers. Our mission is to provide people access to vital information in a language they can understand and we do this by connecting our non-profit partners to a community of over 3,500 volunteer professional translators. We work with technology companies and language service providers to respond to language and content needs in the humanitarian sphere. We pursue our mission in three ways:
Originally founded in 1993 in France as Traducteurs sans Frontières (now its sister organization), Translators without Borders’ accomplishments, over the past six years, have included:
Translators without Borders is a US registered non-profit organization. Via Charles Tiayon
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Translators without Borders | Slator
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Author Lauren Collins explains how she and her French husband translated their feelings without resorting to Franglais Via Charles Tiayon
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I fell for a Frenchman, but didn’t speak the language | Lauren Collins
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WORCESTER – From encouraging them to pursue more leadership opportunities to providing more interpretation and translation services, there is a lot more Worcester could be doing for its population of students still learning English, members of an expert panel said Wednesday at Worcester State University.The underlying message of the morning event, the focus of which was how to help English language learners and non-native English speakers excel in school, is that cities like Worcester Via Charles Tiayon
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Ways to help English language learners are discussed in Worcester
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Much of Noam Chomsky’s revolution in linguistics—including its account of the way we learn languages—is being overturned
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Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
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Angela Carter was a seminal, a watershed novelist: perhaps one of the last generation of novelists to change both the… Via Charles Tiayon
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Angela Carter: a seminal novelist who changed writing and the world
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Read your free e-book: http://hotaudiobook.com/mebk/50/en/B000VU6C1K/book Machine translation (mt) is the area of computer science and applied linguistic
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Translation Engines: Techniques for Machine Translation E-Book
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I’m so tired of hearing people debate [no, whine] over which translation of the Collective Narrative is best, or the true translation. It’s like listening to a two-year-old learning the alphabet while eating her lunch; no, let me take that back. A two-year-old learning the alphabet while rating alphabet soup is cute, and there is nothing cute about adults, adulting over translations – while condemning those who don’t accept their translation to some medieval version of hell [thank you Donte]. Via Charles Tiayon
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Who Cares What Translation You Use
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A new memoir lends a fresh perspective to one of the great mysteries of modern linguistics.
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The World Looks Different When You’re Speaking a Second Language
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The Internet giant has unveiled an English-Chinese translation system built entirely on deep neural networks, saying it reduces error rates by 60 percent.
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An Infusion of AI Makes Google Translate More Powerful Than Ever
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Memsource 6.2 is now live, following the major release 6.0 two weeks ago. This week’s update features the ability to translate Google Documents, to run projects without a human project manager, and to use Memsource translation memory in other CAT tools. Via Stanislav Okhvat
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Memsource 6.2: Translate Google Docs + Run Projects without a Manager
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October 5, 2016 4:30 AM
Memsource has added a number of new features:
1) It is possible to pull Google Documents (Docs, Sheets and Slides) from Google Drive into a project for translation (the connector for Google Drive is only available for Team and Business editions). 2) It is now possible to upload files for translation from online repositories (Google Drive, Dropbox and FTP) automatically. 3) TMX files downloaded from Memsource are now fully interoperable with other CAT tools - tags are now represented with standard TMX format tags rather than special codes as they used to be. 4) Some other updates.
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Google has launched an updated translation tool that uses sophisticated artificial intelligence to produce startlingly accurate language translations. Via Charles Tiayon
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Google Translate is getting really, really accurate - The Boston Globe
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Big data in the translation industry is an entirely new phenomenon that has been made possible due to the introduction of cloud-based translation platforms.
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Big Data: The Future of Translation
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Difference between translation and interpreting language the difference between translation and interpreting language languagescientific the differenc Via Charles Tiayon
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Translator Vs Interpreter - Difference Between Translator And Interpreter
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A jump in the fluency of Google’s language software will help efforts to make chatbots less lame.
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Google’s new translation software is almost as good as human translators
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The basic steps of Java internationalizing are simple. In this tutorial we provide a starting point for the internationalization features of the Java programming language.
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A Beginner’s Guide to Java Internationalization - DZone Java
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Facebook poursuit son développement en terre africaine. Le réseau social a lancé vendredi sa nouvelle version en peul et se décline désormais en sept langues africaines. En attendant plus… Il est bien loin le temps où Facebook, lors de sa création en 2007, ne connaissait que l’anglais et l’espagnol, les deux langues majoritaires dans les universités américaines, qui ont contribué à son essor. Via Charles Tiayon
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Réseaux sociaux : Facebook lance sa version en langue peule
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How a thousand-year-old Sanskrit love poem has travelled the world
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