Back-translation

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  The back-translation (sometimes called retroversion) is to write back in the language of a text already translated. It can be a very accurate and useful work as one who is translating English text into French and then retranslated into … Read More

Beautiful infidels

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Beautiful infidels are “translations which, to appeal and to comply with taste and decorum of the time, are versions “revised and corrected” by conscious translators (too much, no doubt) using the superiority of their language and their judgment.” In the … Read More

Evaluation of machine translation

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Various methods for the evaluation for machine translation have been employed. This article will focus on the evaluation of the output of machine translation, rather than on performance or usability evaluation. Before covering the large scale studies, a brief comment … Read More