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Translating politeness across cultures: case of Hindi and English

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Girish Nath JhaAuthors Info & Claims

ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

Pages 175 - 178

https://doi.org/10.1145/1841853.1841880

Published: 19 August 2010 Publication History

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In this paper, we present a corpus based study of politeness across two languages-English and Hindi. It studies the politeness in a translated parallel corpus of Hindi and English and sees how politeness in a Hindi text is translated into English. We provide a detailed theoretical background in which the comparison is carried out, followed by a brief description of the translated data within this theoretical model. Since politeness may become one of the major reasons of conflict and misunderstanding, it is a very important phenomenon to be studied and understood cross-culturally, particularly for such purposes as machine translation.

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https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2024.2359764
Zamora JOka NKoda TObaid MNakanishi HMubin OTanaka K(2019)Are We Having Fun Yet?Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction10.1145/3349537.3352767(208-210)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3349537.3352767
Jain ALobiyal D(2015)Fuzzy Hindi WordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation Using Fuzzy Graph Connectivity MeasuresACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing10.1145/279007915:2(1-31)Online publication date: 22-Dec-2015
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Translating politeness across cultures: case of Hindi and English
1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Language translation
2. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
      1. Machine translation

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ICIC '10: Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Intercultural collaboration

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Kyoto University, Japan
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International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland
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Al-Hamzi ANababan MSantosa RAnis M(2024)Socio-pragmatic analysis of utterances with polite addressing terms: translation shift across Arabic-English culturesCogent Arts & Humanities10.1080/23311983.2024.235976411:1Online publication date: 4-Jul-2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/23311983.2024.2359764
Zamora JOka NKoda TObaid MNakanishi HMubin OTanaka K(2019)Are We Having Fun Yet?Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction10.1145/3349537.3352767(208-210)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2019
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3349537.3352767
Jain ALobiyal D(2015)Fuzzy Hindi WordNet and Word Sense Disambiguation Using Fuzzy Graph Connectivity MeasuresACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing10.1145/279007915:2(1-31)Online publication date: 22-Dec-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2790079
Kumar R(2011)Making Machine Translations Polite: The Problematic Speech ActsInformation Systems for Indian Languages10.1007/978-3-642-19403-0_29(185-190)Online publication date: 2011
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19403-0_29

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