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The Issue of Direction of Translation in China: A Historical Overview
This is the first comprehensive survey of the issue of direction of translation in China,
covering the period between the second century and the present time. Translation into the non-mother tongue or inverse translation is a time-honored practice in China,
but there has been a lack of attention to the issue of directionality. Before the turn of the 20th century, the issue was simply overlooked since translation was not
considered important and major translation activities depended on foreign translators...
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History of machine translation
The history of machine translation
generally starts in the 1950s, although work can be found from earlier
periods. The Georgetown experiment in 1954 involved fully automatic
translation of more than sixty Russian sentences into English. The
experiment was a great success and ushered in an era of significant
funding for machine translation research...
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The
history of machine translation in a nutshell
§1. Before the computer
It is possible to trace ideas about mechanizing translation processes
back to the seventeenth century, but realistic possibilities came
only in the 20th century. In the mid 1930s, a French-Armenian Georges
Artsrouni and a Russian Petr Troyanskii applied for patents for
‘translating machines’ …
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The History of Translation History
By my count, nine useful books about translation history, specialized
works aside, have been published over the last thirty years. It
must say something about where this field is going that six of them
have come out during the last seven years (and four since 1992).
The latest such work, Translators through History, edited and directed
by Jean Delisle and Judith Woodsworth, appears under the very highest
auspices, being co-published by John Benjamins and Unesco …
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Some
Major Dates and Events in the History of Translation
The speaker will try to show some common threads in the history
of translation or at least some modern parallels with more ancient
examples. As for instance the perils of translating from Sumerian
into Hebrew, Sacred Egyptian into Classical Greek, or Aramaic into
Arabic …
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For the Benefit & Helpe of Ladies and Gentlewomen:
A Translators Historical Review of Dictionaries and Their Eccentricities
Although the major European countries have been prolific in bringing
dictionaries to press since the early seventeenth century, dictionary
production in the twentieth century has grown exponentially in all
the major European languages. It is worth mentioning that although
in the last two decades there have been revolutionary electronic
innovations in format, searchability, presentation and design, in
many fundamental respects monolingual general dictionaries produced
today, whether in the United States or in Europe, are very similar
to those of earlier centuries…
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