The figure of the literary translator amidst new technologies

Hansen, Damien

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The figure of the literary translator amidst new technologies

Hansen, Damien

2024 • In Winters, Marion; Deane-Cox, Sharon; Böser, Ursula (Eds.) Translation, Interpreting and Technological Change: Innovations in Research, Practice and Training

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traductologie; translation studies; traduction littéraire; literary translation; TA; MT; TAO; CAT; traduction littéraire automatique; literary machine translation; traduction littéraire assistée par ordinateur; computer-assisted literary translation; corpus; corpora; technologie; technology; données; data; modèles de langue; language models; objection préjudicielle; impossibility of translation; mémoires de traduction; translation memories; TLAO; CALT; TLA; LMT; personnalized translation technologies; personnalisation des technologies de la traduction; CIRTI

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CIRTI - Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches en Traduction et en Interprétation - ULiège
LIG - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble - Université Grenoble Alpes
GETALP - Groupe d'Étude pour la Traduction Automatique et le Traitement Automatisé des Langues et de la Parole - Université Grenoble Alpes

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Languages & linguistics
Literature
Computer science

Author, co-author :

Hansen, Damien ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches en Traduction et en Interprétation (CIRTI)

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English

Title :

The figure of the literary translator amidst new technologies

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2024

Main work title :

Translation, Interpreting and Technological Change: Innovations in Research, Practice and Training

Author, co-author :

Böser, Ursula; Heriot-Watt University

Editor :

Winters, Marion; Heriot-Watt University

Deane-Cox, Sharon; University of Strathclyde

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Bloomsbury, Londres, United Kingdom

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9781350212947

Collection name :

Bloomsbury Advances in Translation

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80–108

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