English-Turkish Literary Translation Through Human-Machine Interaction

This article investigates perceptions of technology-mediated translations of literary texts by two groups: translation students and professional literary translators. The participants post-edited an excerpt from a classic Dickens novel into Turkish using a machine translation (MT) system of their choice. The analysis of the post-edited texts, participants' answers to survey questions, and interviews with professional translators suggest that MT is currently a long way from being an essential part of any literary translation practice for the English-Turkish language pair. Translators' interactions with MT and negative attitudes toward it may change in a positive direction as MT improves and translation practice evolves.Aquest article investiga la percepció de la traducció de textos literaris per mitjà de la tecnologia des de dues perspectives: d'una banda, la d'estudiants de traducció i, d'altra, la de traductors literaris professionals. Els participants han triat un sistema de traducció automàtica (TA), amb el qual han traduït un fragment d'una novel·la clàssica de Dickens al turc. L'anàlisi dels textos posteditats, les respostes dels participants a les preguntes de l'enquesta i les entrevistes amb traductors professionals suggereixen que, actualment, la TA està lluny de ser una part essencial de la traducció literària per a la combinació lingüística anglès-turc. Les interaccions dels traductors amb la TA i les reaccions negatives que han mostrat envers aquest sistema podrien prendre una deriva més positiva si la TA millora i la pràctica de la traducció evoluciona. .El presente artículo investiga cómo perciben la traducción asistida por ordenador de textos literarios un grupo de estudiantes de traducción y otro de traductores literarios profesionales. Los participantes de nuestro experimento poseditaron la traducción al turco de un pasaje de una clásica novela de Dickens realizada con un sistema de traducción automática (TA) de su elección. El análisis de los textos poseditados, las respuestas de los participantes al cuestionario y las entrevistas con los traductores profesionales indican que, actualmente, la TA dista mucho de ser una parte esencial de cualquier práctica de traducción literaria en la combinación lingüística inglés-turco. Con la mejora de la TA y la evolución de las prácticas de traducción, la interacción de los traductores con la TA y su predisposición negativa hacia ella podrían dar un giro

Investigation of the removal kinetics, thermodynamics and adsorption mechanism of anionic textile dye, Remazol Red RB, with powder pumice, a sustainable adsorbent from waste water

Excessive growth and abnormal use of dyes and water in the textile industry cause serious environmental problems, especially with excessive pollution of water bodies. Adsorption is an attractive, feasible, low-cost, highly efficient and sustainable technique in terms of green chemistry for the removal of pollutants from water. This study aims to investigate the removal kinetics, thermodynamics and adsorption mechanism of Remazol Red RB, which was chosen as a representative anionic reactive dye, from synthetic wastewater using powdered pumice, taking into account various experimental parameters such as initial dye concentration, adsorption time, temperature and pH. Moreover, to support the proposed adsorption mechanism, before and after adsorption of the samples, the Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer (FTIR) spectra, X-ray powder diffraction (XRD) diffractograms and High resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) images were also taken and used. The results show that powder pumice can be an efficient adsorbent for anionic dye removal with a relatively high adsorption capacity of 38.90 mg/g, and it is very effective in 30–60 min in mild conditions. The experimental data showed a high agreement with the pseudo-second-order kinetic model and the Freundlich adsorption isotherm equation. In addition, thermodynamically, the process exhibited exothermic nature and standard isosteric enthalpy and entropy changes of −4.93 kJ/mol and 16.11 J/mol. K were calculated. It was determined that the adsorption mechanism was predominantly based on T-shaped pi-pi interactions and had physical characteristics

Incorporating Human Translator Style into English-Turkish Literary Machine Translation

Although machine translation systems are mostly designed to serve in the general domain, there is a growing tendency to adapt these systems to other domains like literary translation. In this paper, we focus on English-Turkish literary translation and develop machine translation models that take into account the stylistic features of translators. We fine-tune a pre-trained machine translation model by the manually-aligned works of a particular translator. We make a detailed analysis of the effects of manual and automatic alignments, data augmentation methods, and corpus size on the translations. We propose an approach based on stylistic features to evaluate the style of a translator in the output translations. We show that the human translator style can be highly recreated in the target machine translations by adapting the models to the style of the translator

Abstracts from the 20th International Symposium on Signal Transduction at the Blood-Brain Barriers

https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/138963/1/12987_2017_Article_71.pd

Preparation of Melamine Formaldehyde Foam and a Melamine-Formaldehyde-Organo-Clay Nanocomposite and Hybrid Composites

Mineral fillers can be added to thermoset polymers to improve thermal conductivity and deformation behavior, shrinkage, impact strength, dimensional stability and molding cycle time. This study aims to prepare various hybrid composites (MFHCs) using melamine formaldehyde foam (MF), a melamine formaldehyde organo-clay nanocomposite (MFNC) and also pumice as primary filler, and gypsum, kaolinite and a hollow glass sphere as secondary filler. It also focuses on the study of some mechanical properties and thermal conductivities, as well as their microscopic and spectroscopic characterization. For this, firstly, organo-clay was prepared with the solution intercalation method using montmorillonite, a cationic surfactant and long-chain hydrocarbon material, and then was produced using a melamine formaldehyde nanocomposite with in situ synthesis using a melamine formaldehyde pre-polymer and organo-clay. Finally, hybrid composites were prepared by blending various minerals and the produced nanocomposite. For morphological and textural characterization, both FTIR spectroscopy and XRD spectra, as well as SEM and HRTEM images of the raw montmorillonite (MMT), organo-montmorillonite (OMMT), pure polymer (MF) and prepared hybrid composites, were used. Spectroscopic and microscopic analyses have shown that materials with different textural arrangements and properties are obtained depending on effective adhesion interactions between polymer–clay nanocomposite particles and filler grains. Mechanical and thermal conductivity test results showed that melamine-formaldehyde-organo-clay nanocomposite foam (MFCNC) exhibited a very good thermal insulation performance despite its weak mechanical strength (λ: 0.0640 W/m K). On the other hand, among hybrid composites, it has been determined that the hybrid composite containing hollow glass beads (MFCPHHC) is a material with superior properties in terms of thermal insulation and mechanical strength (λ: 0.642 W/m K, bulk density: 0.36 g/cm3, bending strength: 228.41 Mpa, modulus of elasticity: 2.22 Mpa and screw holding resistance: 3.59 N/mm2)

A Hybrid Trailing Edge Control Surface Capable of Camber and Decamber Morphing

This study presents the design and analysis of a novel hybrid trailing edge control surface that is capable to perform both camber and decamber morphing. The design was conducted with CATIA V5-6R2012 package program. Structural analyses were performed with Finite Element Method by using ANSYS® Workbench™ v14.0 package program both in in-vacuo condition and under aerodynamic loading. The aerodynamic loads were calculated by Computational Fluid Dynamics analyses. The required aerodynamic mesh was generated by Pointwise® V17.2 R2 package program, and SU2 (Stanford University Unstructured) V3.2.1 open source software was used as flow solver. The results prove that the designed control surface is capable of performing both camber and decamber morphing both in in-vacuo condition and under aerodynamic loading

Konvansiyonel ve Konvansiyonel Olmayan Kontrol Yüzeylerine Sahip İnsansız Hava Aracı Kanatlarının Aerodinamik Özelliklerinin Değerlendirilmesi

Bu bildiride insansız hava aracına ait bir kanattaki kontrol yüzeyleri konvansiyonel ve konvansiyonel olmayan iki farklı konfigürasyonda aerodinamik açıdan incelenmiştir. Aerodinamik analizler için Pointwise® V17.0- R2 ve SU2 V2.0.001 adlı paket programlar kullanılmıştır. Konvansiyonel kontrol yüzeylerini hareket ettirebilecek tork miktarı aerodinamik veriler kullanılarak hesaplanmıştır. Konvansiyonel olmayan kontrol yüzeylerini hareket ettirecek tork miktarı ise bu çalışmadaki aerodinamik verileri kullanarak diğer bir çalışmada hesaplanmıştırIn this work, aerodynamic analysis of an unmanned aerial vehicle wing having conventional and unconventional control surfaces was conducted. Pointwise® V17.0-R2 and SU2 V2.0.001 package programs were used for the analysis. Required torque to deflect conventional control surfaces was calculated by using aerodynamic data obtained from the analysis. Required torque to deflect unconventional control surfaces was calculated in another proceeding using aerodynamic data obtained in this stud