Last fall, the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies piloted the Yale Translation Initiative, an interdisciplinary program aimed at facilitating conversation among ...

Below left: The program educates students about the interplay of language and culture, and the task requires academic instruction across many fields and study abroad. In the introductory course, ...

In the past five years, almost 70,000 immigrants arrived in Minnesota, many of whom do not consider English their first language. For immigrants, not speaking the same language as another person can ...

Blogs, email and chat are all great ways to communicate - unless you don't speak English. Students and parents of Hispanic origin who find that speaking Spanish prevents them from fully participating ...

A new project at Microsoft Research can translate text into synthesized speech that sounds like your own voice. A new project at Microsoft Research can translate text into synthesized speech that ...

BBN Technologies, a subsidiary of Raytheon Co., has been awarded an additional $17 million contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to complete the five-year Global Autonomous ...

A number of new discoveries relating to the unique linguistic features of text that has been translated by a person that can significantly improve the capabilities of computerized translation programs ...

The goals of the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are to stimulate and coordinate research on rare diseases, and to support research that responds to the needs ...