Processing of Translation-Ambiguous Words by Chinese–English Bilinguals in Sentence Context

Zhou, Guowei; Chen, Yao; Yin, Feng; Rong, Zhou

doi:10.1007/s10936-019-09650-1

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“…whereas the source language was German, an Indo-European language. Due to the huge differences in cultural background, these languages differ from each other syntactically, semantically, and morphologically (G. Zhou, Chen, Feng, & Zhou, 2019;H. Zhou, Chen, Yang, & Dunlap, 2010).…”

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“…whereas the source language was German, an Indo‐European language. Due to the huge differences in cultural background, these languages differ from each other syntactically, semantically, and morphologically (G. Zhou, Chen, Feng, & Zhou, 2019; H. Zhou, Chen, Yang, & Dunlap, 2010). In cross‐language translation, these factors, including cultural situation, emotiveness (the intention of the original author is hidden in the text), untranslatability (no same meaning as the original word is available in the translated language), and the translators, should be considered (Degani et al, 2016).…”

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Questionnaire for the Assessment of Self‐Disgust: The psychometric testing among mental disorders in China

Jin

Herrera

2020

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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Research on self-disgust is relevant to psychopathologic tendencies because it has been shown to play a critical role in several mental disorders. Examining self-disgust and exploring its role in mental health are significant goals. The purpose of this study was to translate the Questionnaire for the Assessment of Self-Disgust (QASD) into Chinese and evaluate its validity and reliability. The translation and validation of the QASD were guided by the World Health Organization's Process of Translation and Adaptation of Instruments. Three phases were undertaken: (a) professional translation and expert panel review, (b) pretesting, and (c) psychometric evaluation. The psychometric evaluation was tested among 1,068 patients who were recruited from two psychiatric hospitals and three psychological clinics of tertiary hospitals. In this study, multigroup confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) supported the two-factor structure of the original QASD construct. Measurement invariance showed that the QASD is invariant across the patients with heterogeneous mental health diagnoses. The correlation of QASD with the Self-Esteem Scale (SES) and the Trait Anger Scale (TAS) showed that it has good convergent validity and discriminative validity. Internal consistency and test-retest yielded acceptable results. Thus, the findings suggest that the Chinese version of the QASD is a reliable and valid instrument with adequate psychometric properties for assessment of self-disgust among patients with mental disorders in China.

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Questionnaire for the Assessment of Self‐Disgust: The psychometric testing among mental disorders in China

Jin

Herrera

2020

Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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“…Teng proposed the famous SCHRDLU model [15] and published the theory of process semantics. Zhou et al proposed the conceptual graph theory of language knowledge framework representation (ConceptualGraphs) and established the semantic network theory [16]. The FINL general syntax analysis system [17] was designed by Lu and includes three translation engines: a knowledge-based translation engine, an instance-based translation engine, and a wordtranslation-based translation engine.…”

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English Translation of Chinese Topic Sentences with Gap Subject Based on Internet Environment

Geng

2022

Mobile Information Systems

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Machine translation is showing an increasingly broad application prospect as the Internet becomes more widely used. The method based on the principle of maximum entropy is primarily used in this paper to determine the subject clause for translation. Its feature set does not necessitate extensive linguistic knowledge, and it is less reliant on it than other methods. It can also add arbitrary features and flexibly combine a large amount of scattered and fragmented knowledge. As a result, the maximum entropy model is used as the classifier in this paper, and lexical and sentence features are used to effectively combine the rules and statistical knowledge. The subsentence recognition process is broken down into three stages, with different features extracted at different stages and the maximum entropy model applied multiple times. At each stage, the classifiers are trained. The translation accuracy and recall rate of Chinese gapped subject topic sentences are improved by more than 5% in a maximum entropy model, according to the results. This method of feature description is particularly useful for identifying sentence endings in Chinese subject topic sentences with gaps. Its translation is closer to the correct translation, indicating that the proposed method’s basic concept—the rationality of segmentation—is correct. The algorithm based on the maximum entropy model performs better in practice.

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“…The most widely used form is the recording of business texts and the drafting and actual implementation of business contracts, explaining the business content through complex sentences. Business English contracts use a lot of subordinate clauses and long sentences, composed of different sentences with a lot of vocabulary, dedicated to the expression of the internal logic of the content of the translated text and the coherent order of the preceding and following sentences, with a very neat and serious style, and the true meaning of the narrative [12][13].In foreign trade, communication and cooperation are important ways to promote friendly communication between different countries, which includes not only the reasonable conversion between vocabulary and sentence patterns but also the collision of cultures and value systems of different countries [14][15]. Finally, the discourse structure of Business English is made up of vocabulary and sentence patterns, and it is important to choose correct and rigorous vocabulary to form a semantically complete long sentence or a complex sentence and a certain number of sentence patterns to form a complete discourse [16][17].…”

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Characterization of Business English Translation Styles Based on Semantic Contrastive Analysis

2024

Applied Mathematics and Nonlinear Sciences

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Language genre is a form of language expression formed by certain people from specific purposes in a particular context, and no form of language expression can exist independently of genre characteristics. The study adopts the space vector model to digitally represent the potential semantics of business English translation. By constructing a translation-word matrix and applying the TF-IDF method to calculate the weights of the elements in the matrix, the study proceeded to perform a singular value decomposition of the matrix. This process helps to extract the features of corpora similarity in business English translation, which in turn completes the construction of a language model for business English translation. The study selected a business English translation corpus for instance analysis. The data results show that in the interaction and information feature analysis, the mean values of ECQ (interaction feature quantitative value) features are higher than TCQ (information feature quantitative value) in three different periods, with the differences of 0.0992, 0.0534 and 0.043 respectively. Regarding the standardized scores of the stylistic features, 24 stylistic feature indexes meet the standardization requirements, accounting for 75% of the total indexes. This finding provides an essential basis for understanding the differences between Business English and other stylistic features. The research in this paper has significant application value for professionals in business English translation.

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Processing of Translation-Ambiguous Words by Chinese–English Bilinguals in Sentence Context

Cited by 8 publications

References 57 publications

Questionnaire for the Assessment of Self‐Disgust: The psychometric testing among mental disorders in China

Questionnaire for the Assessment of Self‐Disgust: The psychometric testing among mental disorders in China

English Translation of Chinese Topic Sentences with Gap Subject Based on Internet Environment

Characterization of Business English Translation Styles Based on Semantic Contrastive Analysis

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