Shelcy V. Joseph Dec 21, 2018 As you approach the new year, you may find yourself thinking about your professional goals. Maybe you’re planning to negotiate a promotion, switch to a more challenging company or transition into a new career. Maybe you’re looking to start a business, meet a mentor or grow your network. Or maybe, you’re …
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Simone Stolzoff – December 5, 2018 Human translators are caught in the crosshairs of two conflicting trends. On one hand, the world is increasingly globalized. With technology that can spread across borders with the touch of a button, the need for people who can translate words and understand the nuance of different cultures has never been …
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by Becket Adams | December 17, 2018 I learned two things from the New York Times’ interview last week with author Alice Walker. First, she enjoys super anti-Semitic propaganda. Second, she can recommend said propaganda to the Times’ millions of readers, and the newspaper won’t say boo about it. I’m not sure these were the takeaways the paper had hoped …
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Chen Huizhi 2018-12-11 A premature baby, Yao Wubin suffered brain damage when he almost suffocated in an infant incubator. Now aged 26, cerebral palsy has defined Yao’s whole life, but his first translation work, an Italian chef’s book about mushrooms, is to be published early next year. Cerebral palsy comes in many forms. Generally, sufferers have …
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Translators have been a success. Can more be done with them? LARRY LANGFORD – NOV 28, 2018 Larry Langford is owner of WGTO(AM) and W244ds in Cassopolis, Mich. He has been in radio since 1965. His commentaries on radio issues such as those facing AM owners are a recurring feature. Read his past articles by searching …
The feature is currently available only for a few languages, although Google plans to bring it to more languages soon. In a bid to reduce gender biases in its translation service, Google has started rolling out a feature that provides feminine and masculine translations for some gender-neutral words on the Google Translate website. The feature …
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While artificial intelligence is expected to dominate international business translation, people will act as translators of tone, emotion and culture. BY SOPHIE CHARARADECEMBER 10, 2018 With the help of parallel text datasets such as Wikipedia, European Parliament proceedings and telephone transcripts from South Asia, machine-learning has now reached the point where translation tools rival their human counterparts. According …
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By Wendy Solomon, December 3, 2018 The large influx of Spanish speakers in the Greater Lehigh Valley over the last decade has increased the need for more interpreters and translators in a wide array of businesses, from law firms to doctors’ offices. The burgeoning Hispanic or Latino population has grown more than 30 percent in the region. …
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Invented in Troyes, these travel-sized texts started popping up everywhere. BY EVAN NICOLE BROWN DECEMBER 04, 2018 NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE in the world, during any given morning commute, you will likely see a book. Whether that book is electronic and read from a screen, or a more traditional three-dimensional version in the grasp of a …
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Cindy Schweich Handler North Jersey Record Published 6:00 AM EST Nov 18, 2018 The bestselling “My Brilliant Friend” is the first in the so-called Neapolitan Quartet Courtesy of Europa Editions Ann Goldstein has been called a publishing celebrity whose “name on a book is now gold.” Praise like that would thrill any writer — which makes …
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