This Friday, 12/11, Peter Connor of Barnard College will give a lecture on literary translation. Professor Connor writes: In this talk I will offer some reflections on changing approaches to literary translation, with particular attention to the translation of the novel. I will argue that the emergence of a globalized literary space has engendered both [...]
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Friday, 11/13/09 7:30 pm Dinner at the Columbia Cottage. Join us for food and conversation – all are welcome! RSVP on Facebook. Friday, 11/20/09 3 pm (location TBA) A computational linguistics/natural language processing presentation by Nizar Habash of the Center for Computational Learning Systems: Automatic Diacritization of Arabic Text Arabic is written without certain orthographic [...]
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Tomorrow, Thursday 11/5, Seiichi Makino of Princeton University will give a lecture on translation and the loss of deep cognitive meaning in a text when it is taken from one language into another. The lecture will take place in the Satow Conference Room, Lerner Hall 5th floor, from 4pm – 5:30pm. Please note that although [...]
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10/30/09 2:00 PM Jennifer Pardo of the Human Communication Lab at Columbia will speak about her research. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED. 7:30 PM Dinner at the Columbia Cottage 11/4/09 4:10 PM Mark Janse of Ghent University will give a talk on Cappadocian Greek: “Dead or Alive? The Resurrection of Cappadocian (Asia Minor Greek).” 11/5/09 [...]
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Prominent Garden City law firm is looking for a qualified individual to translate a portion of a CD from Farsi to English. The tape is approximately 3 minutes in duration. The translator would also have to be available to testify as to the validity of the translation at an upcoming Trial in Queens County Supreme [...]
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This article from the BBC showcases a gadget that seems almost too good to be true: a pair of glasses that translates overheard speech and projects subtitles directly on to the viewer’s retina. NEC said the Tele Scouter was intended to be a business tool that could aid sales staff who would have information about [...]
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