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New dictionary for the unified Korean hockey team

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| February 4, 2018
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The Korea Ice Hockey Association (KIHA) put together a list of the different ice hockey vocabularies between South and North Korea and distributed it to the players ahead of their first training for 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics. It also includes the English pronunciation of the North Korean terms — apparently for the use of the South Korean team’s Canadian coach. In South Korea, ice hockey adapted the sounds of English words for most sporting terms while North has developed 'pure' Korean sporting terminology.   http://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0004211133

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NAATI accreditation in transit to certification

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| October 22, 2017
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| NAATI

A new certification regime will replace NAATI accreditation in January 2018. One of the amendments NAATI is introducing nationwide amid considerable pushback from the interpreting community is a certification path for specialists in the health and legal sectors where the need for cross-cultural and cross-linguistic understanding is greater. Under the new certification system, the new levels will now be known as Recognized Practicing Translator/Interpreter, Certified Provisional Interpreter, Certified Translator/Interpreter, Certified Advanced Translator, Certified Specialist Interpreter (for Health and Legal Services), and Certified Conference Interpreter. https://www.naati.com.au/news-events/news-events-container/updates/transition-to-certification-steps/ https://slator.com/industry-news/australia-heated-debate-major-translator-interpreter-accreditation-reform/

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Live language translation device

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| October 15, 2017
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| new development in language

Will the day when everybody has their own personal translator by their side, or in their ears, performing live, real time simultaneous interpreting' ever come? Google's Pixel Buds and Apple's Airpods tell us that the answer is 'Yes'. https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/04/googles-airpods-competitor-do-real-time-language-translation/

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Translation is AI Complete… Why?

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| September 24, 2017
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| Translation

To translate accurately, a machine must be able to understand the text. It must be able to follow the author's argument, so it must have some ability to reason. It must have extensive world knowledge so that it knows what is being discussed — it must at least be familiar with all the same commonsense facts that the average human translator knows. Some of this knowledge is in the form of facts that can be explicitly represented, but some knowledge is unconscious and closely tied to the human body: for example, the machine may need to understand how an ocean makes one feel to accurately translate a specific metaphor in the text. It must also model the authors' goals, intentions,...

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FIT (International Federation of Translators) World Congress 2017

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| September 23, 2017
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| Conference

International Federation of Translators (FIT) World Congress was held in Brisbane from 3 August 2017 to 5 August 2017. A huge number of participants (700+), a great conference venue (Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre) and wonderful presenters with new and inspiring ideas about interpreting and translation. A number of social events were of course the highlights of the conference (or any conferences, I dare say) - a night cruise on Kookaburra Queen and the gala dinner overlooking Southbank and Brisbane River. The full conference photos are here. The FIT 2017 concluded with so many applauses and gratitudes. See you all at Cuba in 2020.

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The human brain is hardwired with an innate understanding of language

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| September 16, 2017
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| Language

How do human learn languages? It has been a long-standing question with so many attempted answers. Back in the 1960s, the linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky claimed that. This became known as the Universal Grammar theory, and was offered as an explanation of the speed at which children tend to learn their first language. Genetically, the human mind is predisposed to making sense of words and arranging them in a logical sequence as we overcome the initial disorder of learning a language. https://theconversation.com/our-ability-to-recognise-letters-could-be-hard-wired-into-our-brains-83991  

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