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Reminder: Deadline for submission of applications 30 September 2019 For further details, visit the Award Page. The Award is established in honour of the late Professor Martha Cheung (1953-2013), formerly Chair Professor of Translation at Hong Kong Baptist University. Professor Cheung was an internationally renowned scholar whose work on Chinese discourse on translation made a seminal contribution to the reconceptualization of translation from non-Western perspectives. […]

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2019 International Research School for Media Translation & Digital Culture Held 1-6 July 2019, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Reported by the Baker Centre for Translation & Intercultural Studies The six-day ‘International Research School for Media Translation & Digital Culture’, which will take place on alternate years, was held at Shanghai Jiao Tong University for the first time in July […]

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  The Martha Cheung Award for Best English Article in Translation Studies by an Early Career Scholar Announcement of 2019 Award Winner and Two Runners Up The Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2019 Martha Cheung Award is Dr. Yasmin Moll of the University of Michigan, USA, for her […]

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Theorising Translation with Susan Bassnett Nazry Bahrawi  With over twenty titles under her belt, Susan Bassnett can be aptly described as the reigning queen of translation studies. Out of her oeuvre, books like Translation Studies (2002) have become indispensable texts for translation courses all over the world. She is a professor of comparative literature at the University of Warwick, and also a fellow […]

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Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology Editors Ruslan Mitkov, Johanna Monti, Gloria Corpas Pastor and Violeta Seretan About this book: The correct interpretation of Multiword Units (MWUs) is crucial to many applications in Natural Language Processing but is a challenging and complex task. In recent years, the computational treatment of MWUs has received considerable attention but there is […]

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Exploring Creativity in Translation across Cultures / Créativité et traduction à travers les cultures Edited by Emine Bogenç Demirel, Mikaela Cordisco, Emilia Di Martino, Jean-Yves Le Disez, Fabio Regattin, Winibert Segers About this book: The volume offers a rich overview of research in the field of translation conducted by scholars from different countries working with the English-French language pair. Creativity […]

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JTU-PNU Peer Presentations of Research Students was held on 28 June, 2018 at the Jiao Tong Baker Centre for Translation and Intercultural Studies of Shanghai Jiao Tong University. 17 PhD students in Translation Studies from Shanghai Jiao Tong University presented and Pusan National University (South Korea) presented their research findings and answered questions from peers and penal members. Presentations during […]

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Translation Quality Assessment Edited by Joss Moorkens, Sheila Castilho and Stephen Doherty About this book: This is the first volume that brings together research and practice from academic and industry settings and a combination of human and machine translation evaluation. Its comprehensive collection of papers by leading experts in human and machine translation quality and evaluation who situate current developments […]

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