When translating between languages and cultures as different as Chinese and English, the problem is the inadequacy of the target language to express the source. Chinese, with its incredible succinctness, can often express in a…
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Lost in Translation: Why Human Touch Matters in Document Translation
In today’s hyper-connected world, machine translation tools like Google Translate seem like magic wands bridging language barriers. But for truly important documents, relying solely on these digital oracles can be a risky gamble. While machine…
Challenges of Translation
Language Structure: every language sits inside a defined structure with its own agreed upon rules. The complexity and singularity of this framework directly correlates to the difficulty of translation. A simple sentence in English has…
The Story of A Child Bride
[RWET] Final: The power of polar opposite
As I was working on my thesis, I researched on the subject of Child Bride and learned that Poverty and Gender Ineqality are two of the primary reasons that this practice still persists across cultures…
[RWET]HW4 Python functions
Functions and modules are a bit complicated than expected. Going through the class video I realized I missed some details in Allison’s lecture. While it already took some time to understand some of the concepts,…
[RWET] HW3 Appropriating text from the network
As usual, I ran a few practice runs based on class note, and I tried the word “desire” on wordnik under definition. Here is the result to print text and PartofSpeech: And I played with…
[RWET] Midterm- Dow Jones w/ Care Instructions
List and dictionary are complicated concept and even though Allison demoed in details in class, I realized the data you work with matter – in the sense that how you name your data file when…
[RWET]HW2 Dictionary, set, list
A few of practices I did after classes. From the tutorial, I started by using a set that’s looking for a unique words in “Pride and Prejudice” And the result is a long set of…
[RWET] HW1 Create a Python program that behaves like a UNIX
Some test runs for writing a python program and run it from command lines.