Julie McDonough Dolmaya, PhD

Blogging about translation and localization

An app for web localization research

Julie McDonough Dolmaya | February 15, 2010

This morning, while reading the Globe and Mail, I came across an article reviewing a Firefox application that could be useful to localization researchers.
One of the difficulties in localization research is the unstable nature of the object being studied: when researchers study a print source text, it generally stays the same. True, some printed texts, [...]

Social Translation II

Julie McDonough Dolmaya | February 7, 2010

While looking for an article I had read in the Journal of Specialized Translation a few weeks ago, I came across another one by accident, and as it turns out, it discusses social translation (although the author refers to the concept as user-generated translation). Saverio Perrino’s User-generated Translation: The future of translation in a Web [...]