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Translation Conference

With a growing demand for professionals in the language support services, teaching translation and interpretation is quickly becoming an edu

WiT tumblr activist Margaret Carson presents on Sunday, April 7, in NYC:

Panel V: Issues of Inclusivity, Gender, and Diversity in Translation

4:30-5:30 pm

“The Gender Gap in Translation: Translator Advocacy and Curricular Applications”

Margaret Carson (Borough of Manhattan Community College)

As part of the April 6-7, 2019, Teaching Translation and Interpreting Conference at Hunter College of the City University of New York

Hunter West, 8th Floor

With a growing demand for professionals in the language support services, teaching translation and interpretation is quickly becoming an educational imperative. By bringing together representatives of the industry and the academe, the conference aims to bridge the gap between the way translation is taught and the way it is practiced outside academic institutions. The conference addressed the need for new and innovative approaches to teach aspects of translation and interpretation at all levels of the undergraduate and graduate curriculum. While addressing various perspective and methodologies, the conference seeks to elevate the profile of translation pedagogy as an independent academic discipline and explore its impact on other professional fields.

Organized by Margarit T. Ordukhanyan (Hunter College)

RSVP here:

https://www.reechunter.com/translation-conference.html

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In this article we present two English-Greek translation teaching activities with the DDL approach. In these activities we use monolingual corpora with integrated language processing tools (BNC, HNC, Corpus of Greek Texts). In the first activity, we check how appropriate a lexical choice is in the target language by using concordance tables in both languages. The second activity consists in choosing between two or more possible appropriate words in the target language depending on the context shown in concordance tables in both languages. The use of linguistic corpora in translation teaching thus proves to contribute to the improvement of the translation product.

Data-driven learning activities for translation

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In this paper we present a method for term extraction that can be used in classroom with translation students. The terms are extracted from a multilingual parallel corpus with the aid of a parallel concordancer, AntPConc. Our work is focused on English-Greek medical terminology translation, but the method can be transferred to other language pairs and other fields of terminology. In the first part, there is a short presentation of the theoretical framework with due reference to data-driven learning and corpora, followed by a presentation of the corpus used, i.e. the EMEA corpus, as well as the parallel concordancer AntPConc, so that sufficient information is given in order to implement the suggested teaching activity, which is presented in the last part of this paper. Finally, we suggest other uses of AntPConc, and present the advantages of the suggested methodology for translation students.

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Teaching Medical Terminology Translation with Paralell Corpus: 5th Meeting of Greek-Speaking Translation Studies Specialists, AUTH, May 2015, Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract

In this paper we present a method for term extraction that can be used in classroom with translation students. The terms are extracted from a multilingual parallel corpus with the aid of a parallel concordancer, AntPConc. Our work is focused on English-Greek medical terminology translation, but the method can be transferred to other language pairs and other fields of terminology.

For more information on the parallel concordancer: http://www.laurenceanthony.net

Introduction

In this paper we present an alternative source of translated terms, as well as the method that can be used to extract it. Although this project is focused on medical terminology for the English-Greek direction, the proposed technique can be exploited both for other terminology areas and for other language pairs. The language resource we use is the parallel EMEA corpus and the tool used for its processing is AntPConc, a parallel concordancer.

Parallel corpora and their advantages in translation training  

Although terminology regarding parallel coprora is quite blurry in that various terms have been used to express the same or similar concepts, such as comparable or translation coprora, in this project, by “parallel corpus” we mean a corpus comprised of original texts in one language and one or more translations of these texts in one or more other languages1.

Parallel corpora can provide important information about language structures and translation equivalents (Lawson, 2001), which is not usually encountered in a traditional bilingual dictionary due to lack of context or information about the use in context. According to Teubert (1996), a large parallel corpus includes more information about translation equivalents than any bilingual dictionary.

Parallel corpora can also help translation students focus on solutions for typical translation problems that have already been handled by experienced translators, as well as achieve more natural and precise translations. Even building a corpus has a positive impact on learners: they get to identify problems concerning text selection as well as other technical problems, thus becoming better corpora users and analysing texts in a more careful manner (Bernardini, 2004). I. Saridakis (Saridakis, 2011) supports including in translation studies modules that would iniciate students in Corpus Linguistics techniques. Moreover, parallel corpora can also be of great help in teaching terminology management, as previous successful translations are considered the best source for a translator (Lawson, 2001).

In this project, we focus on a parallel corpus and its processing is performed in the concordance table format, which, despite its disadvantages, does contribute to the translator's work in an efficient way.

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Poster: "English-Greek Translation Teaching Activities with the Data-Driven Learning (DDL) Approach", July 2015, UOA, Athens, Greece

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In this poster, we present two English-Greek translation teaching activities with the DDL approach. In these activities we use monolingual corpora with integrated language processing tools (BNC, HNC, Corpus of Greek Texts). In the first activity, we

8th Conference of Master’s and PhD Candidates, UOA, July 2015, Athens, Greece

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Teaching Medical Terminology Translation with Parallel Corpus

Presentation, May 2015, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece

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Teaching Medical Terminology Translation with Parallel Corpus

Presentation, May 2015, AUTH, Thessaloniki, Greece

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