Essays about: "Translationese"

Found 2 essays containing the word Translationese.

  1. 1. Translating sentence openers : An analysis of the potential risk of syntactic interference in a translation from English to Swedish

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Emma Larsson Christensen; [2016]
    Keywords : Syntax; word order; sentence openers; interference; thematic structure;

    Abstract : In this paper the changes that occur in the translation of initial sentence elements regarding clause element function as well as thematic structure are analyzed. The first part of the aim is to investigate how these functions and structures change in translation. READ MORE

  3. 2. Translationese and Swedish-English Statistical Machine Translation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Jakob Joelsson; [2016]
    Keywords : Translationese; Statistical Machine Translation; Text Classification; Classification of Translationese;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how well machine learned classifiers can identify translated text, and the effect translationese may have in Statistical Machine Translation -- all in a Swedish-to-English, and reverse, context. Translationese is a term used to describe the dialect of a target language that is produced when a source text is translated. READ MORE