Meet THOMAS RASAQ AINA, an Academic Staff of Lagos State University.
Translation Studies
Lecturer I
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 TQAMy research interest focuses on a comparative, analytical and empirical evaluation of typology of texts translated by Human/Machine and to juxtapose them with the original texts reference translation with a view to determining the performance index and quality of both translations . There is a corpus for experiment and analysis which will include source texts pragmatic, technical, and literary , their human and machine translation equivalent. For the purpose of comparative evaluation of performance index and quality of human/machine translations, I have chosen 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 will ascertain the success and failure rates of machine translation Google Translate as well as its capacity to provide coherence, contextual or situational and equivalent meaning - salient features in translation studies. This study is inspired by the general perception, non empirical criticisms and affirmations about the performance and incomprehensibility of the output of machine translation of natural languages. Stake holders authors, translators, and target audience in translation activity have argued that machine lacks the capacity to think and by extension translate intelligibly, coherently and meaningfully. Their argument is 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 have , through a questionnaire raised some hypothetical questions which will serve as a guide in the course of this research.
THOMAS RASAQ is a Lecturer I at the Department of Foreign Languages
THOMAS has a Ph.D in Translation Studies from Department of Foreign Languages, Lagos State University, Ojo
