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Word2Word Writing Archive

Word2Word is pleased to provide some selected writings from various sources about translation, machine translation, language and language learning. Most of these files will be in a pdf format where you will need to have an adobe acrobat reader to access them. We will continue to add additional writings to this archive as we find them. We have made an effort to contact the authors for permission to reproduce their works; however, if they choose to have these publications removed from our site then we must honor those request. If you are a business and would like to be a sponsor of this site or you find any bad links or new useful links then please contact us from the appropriate address on our How To Contact Us webpage.


Translation Getting It Right: A Guide To Buying Translations


This how to guide produced by the Institute of Translation and Interpreting, provides a excellent starting point for those who are looking at using human translators for any project.

Translation Getting It Right: A Guide To Buying Translations

Preparing Web Sites For Streamlined Localization


This how-to guide produced by Lernout & Hauspie can give you a good idea of what is needed to prepare a website for translation before hiring a translation company or independant translator. These steps can save the site owner extra money and grief going through the translation process.

Preparing Web Sites For Streamlined Localization

Machine Translation: An Introductory Guide


A excellent resource for anyone intrested in machine translation. The material is several years old but provides an excellent starting point for people interested in the development of automatic translation systems. This document was writen by D.J. Arnold, Lorna Balkan, Siety Meijer, R.Lee Humphreys and Louisa Sadler and the orignal copy can be found at http://clwww.essex.ac.uk/MTbook/

Machine Translation and Computer Based Translation


This body of work by John Hutchins compose and excellent starting point for anyone researching MT

Main publications on Machine Translation


Learning and Teaching Styles in
Foreign and Second Language Education


A helpful paper by Professor Richard M. Felder on classroom methodologies that can be used to assist the foreign language instructor

Learning and Teaching Styles in
Foreign and Second Language Education


Linguistics and Language Teaching


A paper by Professor Charles Townsend on going beyond merely knowing Slavic languages to be able to teach them. You can apply some of these concepts to the teaching of any language

Linguistics and Language Teaching






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