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ISBN: 9781003168348
Publication Year: 2023
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This encyclopedia covers a host of issues about computer-aided translation and machine translation. These include major concepts and development of translation technology around the world, and topical studies in areas such as localization, concordancing, terminology management and translation memory.


 
Chan, S. W. (Ed.). (2023). The Routledge encyclopedia of translation technology (2nd ed.). Routledge.

Call no.: PL1277 .E53 2018
ISBN: 9789629968397
Publication Year: 2018
Book
 

This encyclopedia comprises scholarly articles by specialists in practical translation and interpreting. Issues discussed include English-Chinese translation of practical writings, translation of quotes in Chinese literary works, conference and simultaneous interpreting as well as translation technology and its practical applications.


 
Chan, S. W. (Ed.). (2018). An encyclopedia of practical translation and interpreting. The Chinese University Press.
 

Call no.: P306 .E57 2020
ISBN: 9781138933330
Publication Year: 2020
Book
 

Written by international experts, this encyclopedia presents concepts, theories and topics of translation studies in A to Z entries. Examples include audiovisual translation, critical discourse analysis, corpora, dubbing, note-taking and memory. Annotated references for further reading are also provided at the end of each entry.


 
Baker, M., & Saldanha, G. (Eds.). (2020). Routledge encyclopedia of translation studies (3rd ed.). Routledge.

ISBN: 9781315745381
Publication Year: 2015
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This handbook provides a comprehensive account on major aspects of interpreting, such as its history and evolution, modes and settings as well as specific issues and debates relating to ethics, professional identity and the role of interpreters.


 
Mikkelson, H., & Jourdenais, R. (Eds.). (2015). The Routledge handbook of interpreting. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315745381

Call no.: T11 .H27 1997 v.2
ISBN: 9781556195099
Publication Year: 2001
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Apart from the first volume explaining the basic principles of terminology management, this volume studies the application of terminological tools in different aspects. Research areas include terminology and total quality management, terminology in technical writing, and the role of specialist terminology management in artificial intelligence.


 
Wright, S. E., & Budin, G. (Eds.). (2001). Handbook of terminology management: Application-oriented terminology management (Vol. 2). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Call no.: PL1455 .C56 2019
ISBN: 9789620705458
Publication Year: 2019
Book
 

This dictionary is a practical tool to examine Putonghua and English equivalents of Cantonese words and expressions. It contains nearly 3,000 Cantonese headwords, with corresponding Putonghua and English words and phrases listed next to the headwords for reference. Entries are arranged in normal and reverse order when appropriate.


 
Chan, S. W. (2019). A new comprehensive Cantonese-Putonghua-English dictionary. The Commercial Press (H.K.) Limited.
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Call no.: P306.97.T73 C53 2017
ISBN: 9780367409050
Publication Year: 2017
Book
 

This book traces the development of translation technology and introduces major concepts of computer-aided translation. It also explores the functions, strengths and weaknesses of its free and paid systems as well as offers prediction for the future advances in translation technology.


 
Chan, S.-W. (2017). The future of translation technology: Towards a world without Babel. Routledge.

Call no.: P308 .H86 2019
ISBN: 9780367892036
Publication Year: 2019
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This book consists of research studies in various issues about machine translation, such as the use of machine translation system to localize business websites, the latest database technologies in managing terminology resources and the problems of accuracy in translating texts from English to another language through machine translation.


 
Chan, S.-W. (Ed.). (2019). The human factor in machine translation. Routledge.

Call no.: P306 .M865 2022
ISBN: 9780367370510
Publication Year: 2022
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This book provides a comprehensive account on the history, concepts and theories of translation studies. It also explores the role of translators in society and the new directions of translation from the new media.


 
Munday, J., Pinto, S. R., & Blakesley, J. (2022). Introducing translation studies: Theories and applications (5th ed.). Routledge.

 
ISBN: 9781315649573
Publication Year: 2016
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This book introduces the development of interpreting as a discipline and explains various concepts, models and methodologies, in addition to topics related to interpreting research, such as language and memory, discourse in interaction and technology.


 
Pöchhacker, F. (2016). Introducing interpreting studies (2nd ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.43249781315649  573

 
ISBN: 9789027288080
Publication Year: 2009
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This book offers a detailed account on both conceptual and application issues in translation and interpreting, including theoretical models, ad hoc knowledge acquisition strategies, tactics for simultaneous interpreting, sight translation, and criteria of producing good quality translation works.


 
Gile, D. (2009). Basic concepts and models for interpreter and translator training (Rev. ed.). John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Call no.: PL1074.5 .A38 2007
ISBN: 9789812569042
Publication Year: 2007
Book
 

This book brings together scholarly articles in various research studies related to Chinese spoken language processing. These include studies on the phonetic and phonological background of Chinese spoken languages, tone modeling, Mandarin text-to-speech synthesis, Cantonese speech recognition, and speech-to-speech translation.


 
Lee, C. H., Li, H., Lee, L. S., Wang, R. H., & Huo, Q. (Eds.). (2007). Advances in Chinese spoken language processing. World Scientific.
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Journals

Machine Translation


ISSN: 0922-6567 (Print); 1573-0573 (Electronic)
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This journal covers scholarly articles in various aspects of computational linguistics and language issues, including machine translation, speech processing, software localization and language modeling.

Target: International Journal of Translation Studies


ISSN: 0924-1884 (Print); 1569-9986 (Electronic)
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This journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on translation and interpreting, covering studies in theoretical, cultural, sociological, linguistic, cognitive and other aspects.

Translation & Interpreting: The International Journal of Translation and Interpreting Research


ISSN: 1836-9324
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Published by the University of Western Sydney, this journal consists of peer-reviewed research articles on all aspects of translation and interpreting that contribute to the training and practice of the field.

Journal of Translation Studies


ISSN: 1027-7978
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Published by the Chinese University of Hong Kong, this journal contains peer-reviewed bilingual articles on topics related to translation studies. The articles mainly cover the theoretical and practical aspects of Chinese-English and English-Chinese translation.

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The archive contains a list of downloadable resources in all areas of computational linguistics and natural language processing. These resources are mainly research papers presented in conference proceedings and workshops as well as journal articles published in Computational Linguistics and Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics.
  The archive stores a large number of publications in the field of machine translation. In addition to articles arranged in different topics, it also provides full-text access to EAMT conference and workshop proceedings.
  The website of a global association of translators and interpreters, it provides publications such as newsletters and discussion papers on different language and translation issues, including machine translation and remote interpreting.
  The website provides downloadable articles published by the New Voices in Translation Studies, the online journal of the associaton. It features articles mainly related to translation and intercultural communication.
 
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Philology. Linguistics – Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar – Translating and interpreting
 
P306 - 310

 
Philology. Linguistics – Computational linguistics. Natural language processing
 
P98 - 98.5
 
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