Meet THOMAS AINA RASAQ, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
Translation Studies
Senior Lecturer
Foreign Languages
At the Foreign Languages department office
Appointment on Visitation important
| # | Certificate | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Ph.D (Translation Studies) | Department of Foreign Languages, Lagos State University, Ojo | 2019 |
Translation Quality Assessment TQA
Translation Quality Assessment TQA research interest focused on a comparative, analytical and empirical evaluation of typology of texts translated by Human/Artificial Intelligence and juxtaposed them with the original texts reference translation with a view to determining the performance index and quality of both translations . We adopted an heterogeneous corpus for experiment and analysis which included source texts - pragmatic, technical, and literary , their human and AI equivalents. For the purpose of comparative evaluation of performance index and quality of human/AI translations, we deployed Google Translate as a model of machine translation tool to translate original texts of natural languages and their comparison to the ones done by a human translator expert. By way of comparison, this exercise ascertained the success and failure rates of AI translations/Google Translate as well as its capacity to provide coherence, contextual or situational and equivalent meaning - salient features in translation studies. This study was inspired by the general perception, non empirical criticisms and affirmations about the performance and incomprehensibility of the output of artificial intelligence of natural languages. Stake holders authors, translators, and target audience in translation activity had argued that AI lacked the capacity to think and by extension translate intelligibly, coherently and meaningfully. Their argument was plausible in view of the fact that translation is structural, contextual and cognitive. In order to react to these two dissenting views about the capacity of computer to translate, I had , through a questionnaire raised some hypothetical questions which would serve as a guide in the research.
THOMAS RASAQ is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages
THOMAS has a Ph.D in Translation Studies from Department of Foreign Languages, Lagos State University, Ojo
