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In the under-representative world of publishing, can a mentorship for a minority ethnic translator make a difference, asks Miranda Moore

It has been five years since journalist Danuta Kean published a report on the severe underrepresentation of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) people in the British literary industry. In addition to a legacy of 鈥渨hite male elitism鈥� that...

By听Erwin La Cruz

Do measures that pit machine translation against human interpreters give an accurate picture, asks Erwin La Cruz

The fight for translation supremacy between machines and humans rages on. The reports from the front line are delivered in code: LEPOR 0.68, NIST 0.56, BLEU 0.46, METEOR 0.56, WER 0.39. These acronyms are translation quality evaluation metrics. These...

The Queen鈥檚 speech today outlined Boris Johnson鈥檚 agenda for the new session of parliament.

In a key element of the speech, the Queen says her government will 鈥渨ork to promote and expand the United Kingdom鈥檚 influence in the world鈥�, starting with a review into security, defence and foreign policy 鈥渃overing all aspects of international policy from defence to diplomacy and development鈥�....

By Anita van Adelsbergen

Anita van Adelsbergen considers the many challenges of specialising in canine and equine translation

When you are working on a translation and can鈥檛 find a certain word, Google will usually find your answer. But as an interpreter in the middle of a field, arena or paddock, that is a bit more difficult. And when it comes to equine interpreting, just...