Research on Translation of English Film Titles into Chinese From the Cultural Perspective

With the increasing development of globalization, films become a significant medium of cultural exchange among different countries. The film title, a key component of a film, plays an essential role in the propaganda of the film. Therefore, the translation of the film titles is critically important. This paper discusses the functions of film titles, analyzes the basic principles of English film title translation and cultural differences between China and western countries influencing the translation of English film titles, and then puts forward some translation strategies, including literal translation and transliteration, literal translation plus explanatory words and transliteration plus explanatory words, liberal translation, and creative translation, in the hope that these strategies to some extent can give some enlightenment to translators when English film titles are translated

A study on mutual information-based feature selection for text categorization

Feature selection plays an important role in text categorization. Automatic feature selection methods such as document frequency thresholding (DF), information gain (IG), mutual information (MI), and so on are commonly applied in text categorization. Many existing experiments show IG is one of the most effective methods, by contrast, MI has been demonstrated to have relatively poor performance. According to one existing MI method, the mutual information of a category c and a term t can be negative, which is in conflict with the definition of MI derived from information theory where it is always non-negative. We show that the form of MI used in TC is not derived correctly from information theory. There are two different MI based feature selection criteria which are referred to as MI in the TC literature. Actually, one of them should correctly be termed "pointwise mutual information" (PMI). In this paper, we clarify the terminological confusion surrounding the notion of "mutual information" in TC, and detail an MI method derived correctly from information theory. Experiments with the Reuters-21578 collection and OHSUMED collection show that the corrected MI method’s performance is similar to that of IG, and it is considerably better than PMI

Flight, Anorexia and Madness Coexistence of Body and Spirit

The Canadian writer Margaret Atwood has created various impressive women characters in her fictions. Facing the awkward situation, their bodies usually react first: flight, anorexia and madness, which present not only their abnormal state of body or physics, but also express their unvoiced desire, thoughts and spirit. Through the abnormality or even morbidity of the body, these females show great intensity of desires to rebel against phallocentrism, remove the fetter of men, acquire the right of freedom and liberty and achieve true equality with men in social, political, cultural and economical respects. These appeals fit amazingly the situation of Canadian literature, in which Canadian woman writers and man writers are equally successful and influential, and reflect the belief of Atwood that contemporary women are capable of compete with men in all the fields in the near future through their persistent struggling as well