AppTek’s Hybrid Machine Translation Scores Highest During Independent Comparative Evaluation
New York, USA (Business Wire): AppTek, a leader in human language technology (HLT), today announced its hybrid machine translation (HMT) system, a full integration of


Ethiopia gets Microsoft software in Amharic
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AFP): US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the first operating system in the national language of Ethiopia, the


The role of marriage in linguistic contact and variation: Two Hmong dialects in Texas
New Hampshire, USA (Interscience): The role of marriage in linguistic contact and variation has been under-represented in sociolinguistic research. In any practice-based analysis, individual interactions


Seeing The Brain Hear Reveals Surprises About How Sound Is Processed
Maryland, USA (Newswise): New research shows our brains are a lot more chaotic than previously thought, and that this might be a good thing. Neurobiologists

 

Wall with Maya Seignior Glyphs Discovered at Archaeological Zone
Chiapas, Mexico (Art Daily): A wall with a rich glyphic text that includes the complete name of the ruler that founded one of the most


Google leaps language barrier with translator phone
London, UK (Times): Google is developing software for the first phone capable of translating foreign languages almost instantly — like the Babel Fish in The


Kentucky: Bill requires "Closed Captioning" for Movie Theaters
Kentucky, USA (WBKO): The trip to the movie house now offers many of us the latest in sight and sound technology. But one State Senator


Study on impact of Francoist censorship in translations of “Western” novels and movies
Bilbao, Spain (Basque Research): The PhD by María del Carmen Camus studied on the impact of Francoist censorship on translations of “western” novels and movies