Chapter 1. Now what?

Pastor, Gloria Corpas; Rodas, Fernando Sánchez

doi:10.1075/btl.158.01cor

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Chapter 8. Embedding, extending, and distributing interpreter cognition with technology

Mellinger

2023

IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature

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Interpreters work in increasingly technologized environments, with access to hardware and software prior to and during the interpreting task, which can support their work in a variety of ways. Some of these tools are used prior to the interpreting task as a means to prepare materials, terminology, and resources that can be later used while interpreting. Other tools seek to support interpreters while interpreting, including automated speech recognition systems, digital recording materials, and digital pens, to allow interpreters to augment their ability to process information and potentially enhance their performance. The presence and use of these technologies ultimately alters and influences the work of interpreters, particularly since these tools can extend and distribute cognitive processes and resources across multiple interpreters and technologies. This chapter takes a socio-cognitive perspective on interpreting in order to more closely examine the interaction of technology and interpreter cognition, focusing on several interrelated constructs of interpreting, namely embedded and embodied cognition, extended cognition, and distributed cognition. These cognitive frameworks, which are often collectively referred to as situated or 4EA cognition, illustrate the importance of recognizing the contextualized and situated nature of interpreting with respect to technologies used to support interpreters in their work.

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Chapter 8. Embedding, extending, and distributing interpreter cognition with technology

Mellinger

2023

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Download IATE as a Resource for Teaching Names in the Translation and Interpreting Classroom

Sánchez Rodas,

Corpas Pastor

2023

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Proper names are a minoritarian yet fairly controversial topic in translation and interpreting literature. Some authors believe that they have been traditionally disregarded, becoming «one of translation’s coziest fortresses» (Albin, 2003); however, a number of prominent translation and interpreting scholars have explicitly studied proper names (Hermans, 1988; Moya Jiménez, 2001; Nord, 2003), and a stream of recent publications underline the challenge they represent in fields as varied as biomedicine (Cariello et al., 2021), literature (Jouini, 2020; Sarmaşık, 2022) and the law (Tang, 2021), among others. This paper proposes the integration of terminology databases and onomastics for interpreter and translator training. We will adopt a constructionist approach (cf. Goldberg, 1995). The download functionality of the terminology management system IATE is employed to extract a reliable English-Spanish dataset of 3,997 organization names, which is first analyzed in a quantitative-qualitative manner, and then exploited to design three templates (easy, medium, and advanced) aimed at bilingual naming practice. Results show a generally rich and robust dataset, with 96% cascading domain names, 66% marked as very reliable and only 8% as deprecated or obsolete. By contrast, most names (75%) were labelled as terms, which shows no consideration for their onymic nature and small or no relevance of other specialized knowledge representations (abbreviations, phrases, short terms, and non-linguistic forms). The proposed templates extensively develop a Goldbergian-style notation system for construction, and their flexibility and replicability make them a good candidate for automatization and/or combination with documentation resources and NLP-based tools throughout the learning process.

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Chapter 1. Now what?

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Chapter 8. Embedding, extending, and distributing interpreter cognition with technology

Chapter 8. Embedding, extending, and distributing interpreter cognition with technology

Download IATE as a Resource for Teaching Names in the Translation and Interpreting Classroom

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