UdeMNouvelles – Université de Montréal. Le traitement automatique des langues ou du langage naturel est un des domaines de prédilection de l’intelligence artificielle. La professeure
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Les mille et un pixels de la localisation de jeux vidéo
La localisation est un monde qui bouge. Avec Cultures Connection, découvrez les mille et un pixels de la localisation de jeux vidéo. culturesconnection.com
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Comment j’ai publié ma première traduction
L’Institut supérieur de traducteurs et interprètes (ISTI) de Bruxelles était une école réputée et spécialisée en matière de traduction et je m’y suis inscrit à
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Particularités de la traduction du texte de presse : le problème du titre journalistique
Le texte de presse est peut-être l’un des domaines les moins discutés du point de vue traductologique. Le vrai problème, de nos jours, est le
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Mon expérience Babelcube
The whole blog is about this subject! Mon expérience avec Babelcube, une plateforme qui réunit auteurs et traducteurs. Pour ma part, je suis traductrice, mais
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Korean Translation Tip: When a Korean “Yes” Means “No”, and a “No” Means “Yes”
It’s been several months since my last Korean translation tip because, well, I’ve been busy translating… and have also spent this time working hard to
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Want to be a better translator? Improve your own language.
When planning our CPD we often take into consideration core activities such as improving our marketing skills, learning how to use new CAT tools, how
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How to translate an AdWords Campaign
Translators who are not familiar with SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and PPC (Pay Per Click) principles may be very good translators, but they may not
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Enabling smooth translations from Japanese into English
Major cultural and linguistic differences hamper translation of Japanese documents into English and other European languages. But in every challenge lies an opportunity. Improving Japanese
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Courts struggle to find interpreters in unusual languages
People speaking rare or unusual languages are often denied timely access to justice due to a shortage of court interpreters with knowledge of their specialized
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What does it take to be a literary translator?
These days, it’s becoming more and more common for translators to specialise in a given field. It’s a sound strategy: after all, the better you
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The Interpreter´s Ultimate Challenge: Humor in Conferences
Interpreting humor in conferences has always been a difficult task for professional interpreters. Much is lost on the way to convey the exact message, especially
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What it takes to become a translator for game localization
If you have a passion for gaming and you want to become a professional game translator who’ll be working on different, yet challenging projects, you’ll have
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An Inside Look at Video Game Localization (Part I) – Blog
This is part one of a two-part post written by Thaís Castanheira, a Gengo Senior Translator in the English to Brazilian Portuguese language pair. When people ask what
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Comics in Translation Studies. An Overview and Suggestions for Research
Comics enjoy a prominent space in the translation world. In Italy as well as in other countries the majority of comics titles are translations (see
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How to avoid ‘Homeland’-style translation tricksters
© The Financial Times Limited 2015. A message goes out regularly from the Financial Times picture desk: is there a Finnish or Greek or some-other-language
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11 Myths about Translation and Translators
There’s a lot of myths about translation and translators. Sometimes they seem to contradict each other. In this post I’m going to debunk some of
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Translation: an impossible art?
When you learn French at school, two of the first words you learn are tu and vous. In English both have the same translation –
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Financial Translation is a Balancing Act
Financial translation is aharmony balancing act, among style, content, format, and deadlines. Translators must have solid skills — not just subject-matter knowledge and writing skills
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Translating Invented Terms
In some cases, translators will come across a word straight from the mind of a text’s author. When there’s no possible way for invented words
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The Case for Non-Native Translators?
While the idea of a translator working out of their native tongue is the stuff of nightmares for many established professionals, I recently took part
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When the foreign language speaker and the interpreter don’t use the same terminology
Dear colleagues: Although this is not new, it seems to me that technological advances and globalization have generated a more hybrid sui-generis type of terminology
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Traducciones y control de calidad
«Las traducciones se abandonan, no se terminan», me comentaba un compañero hace unos días. En efecto, por muy satisfechos que estemos de una traducción, es
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The fine line between faithfulness and cacozelia
Karoshi, Japanese for “to die from overwork”, has been the star at many translation forums this week. Antonio Carrillo, manager at http://www.tradux.es/, opened the debate
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Translating Adult Content
An unusual profitable niche market for translators to specialize in. You may have never thought about it, but adult films, websites, magazines, literature, games, comics
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Komen traduir l’inovassion ortografik : étude de ca
Cet article propose une réflexion sur la façon dont le dialecte visuel, tel que défini originellement par Krapp (1926), a été et peut être traduit
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Why multiple screens can help you translate faster
How and why multiple screens can help you work and translate faster. Translation is not anymore about working on one file, with nothing else, but
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