Lecture II
Lecture II
Lecture II
Lecture II
The second half of the 20th century has seen the in-depth study of translation, which is
sometimes called Theory of Translation, Science of Translation, Translation Linguistics,
or Translatology.
In the West, translation studies began in 1972 with Holmes’s paper presented at the Third
International Congress of Applied Linguistics, “The Name and Nature of Translation
Studies”.
Machine translation
The first idea of machine translation is known to have been expressed in 1933 by the Soviet
engineer Petr Smirnov-Troyansky but it is not he but Warren Weaver who is credited as
the founding father of Machine Translation (MT) research.
➢ In regard to texts (e.g., weather reportsIn regard to texts (e.g., weather reports)
with limited ranges of vocabularyIn regard to texts (e.g., weather reports) with
limited ranges of vocabulary and simple sentenceIn regard to texts (e.g.,
weather reports) with limited ranges of vocabulary and simple sentence
structure, machine translation can deliver results that do not require much
human intervention to be useful.
The first idea of machine translation is known to have been expressed in 1933 by the Soviet
engineer Petr Smirnov-Troyansky but it is not he but Warren Weaver who is credited as
the founding father of Machine Translation (MT) research.
Computer-assisted translation