Machine Translation (MT) is the task of mapping a source language to a target language. The recent introduction of neural MT (NMT) has shown promising results for high-resource language, however, poorly performing for low-resource language (LRL) settings. Furthermore, the vast majority of the 7, 000+ languages around the world do not have parallel data, creating a zero-resource language (ZRL) scenario. In this thesis, we present our approach to improving NMT for LRL and ZRL, leveraging a multilingual NMT modeling (M-NMT), an approach that allows building a single NMT to translate across multiple source and target languages. This thesis begins by i) analyzing the effectiveness of M-NMT for LRL and ZRL translation tasks, spanning two NMT modeling architectures (Recurrent and Transformer), ii) presents a self-learning approach for improving the zero-shot translation directions of ZRLs, iii) proposes a dynamic transfer-learning approach from a pre-trained (parent) model to a LRL (child) model by tailoring to the vocabulary entries of the latter, iv) extends M-NMT to translate from a source language to specific language varieties (e.g. dialects), and finally, v) proposes an approach that can control the verbosity of an NMT model output. Our experimental findings show the effectiveness of the proposed approaches in improving NMT of LRLs and ZRLs.

The diploma thesis focuses on the translation of Jaromir Nohavica's work. The aim of the thesis is to define Nohavica's translation style on the basis of detailed translatological analysis of his translations of Bulat Okudzhava and Vladimir Vysotsky. At the same time, the translations of Milan Dvorak and Petr Kovarik are analysed. The analysis is extended by a brief analysis of a song score which works as a verification of a hypothesis whether the chosen translations are songful not only in Jaromir Nohavica's presentation. The theoretical part of the thesis is dedicated to Jaromir Nohavica's personality, particularities of lyrics translation, author song and their authors. Thanks to a complex approach, the diploma thesis describes a translation style of a significant representative of Czech culture which has not been so far individually introduced. Key words Jaromir Nohavica, translation style, translatological analysis, authorial song, Bulat Okud- zhava, Vladimir Vysotsky, lyrics translation, score

While many high school English instructors in the United States teach world literature in translation, few of them explicitly present the literature as translated. High school English students would benefit from learning more about the linguistic origins of the world literature they read. This awareness would increase student understanding of the source culture and benefit their language skills. Various translation theorists have suggested methods to teach translational awareness, but few have offered advice on the type of translation to select. In my research, I examined the question of whether students would derive more cultural knowledge, and specifically language-related knowledge, by reading domesticated or foreignized translations. To explore this question, I created two different English translations of the same French literary texts and presented them to several classes of U.S. American high school students. One translation (Version A) was intended to be a domesticated version and the other (Version B) was deliberately foreignized. Classes read two versions of either Anna Gavalda’s short story “Happy Meal” or of a selection from Joseph Zobel’s novel La Rue Cases-Nègres. Following the reading, they completed a series of multiple-choice and free-response questions. Responses to the readings indicated that students found the foreignized translations more “sophisticated” but did not consistently demonstrate a greater cultural understanding as a result. The results failed to prove one translation method more effective than the other, but they did suggest limitations to Lawrence Venuti’s foreignization approach.

[pt] Esta dissertação de mestrado apresenta, a partir da concepção de tipos de solução de tradução, contribuições para análise de traduções no par linguístico português-Libras, partindo de uma reflexão acerca dos conceitos de procedimentos, estilo e multimodalidade. Embora a noção de tipos de solução de tradução, ressaltada na obra Translation Solutions for Many Languages, de Anthony Pym, não contemple o par de línguas debatido no presente trabalho, ela dá subsídios importantes para discussões a respeito das tomadas de decisão que tradutores e tradutoras assumem em seu ofício e, consequentemente, contribui para o aspecto formativo de tradutores e tradutoras à medida que oferece um leque maior de opções disponíveis. Nesse sentido, a proposta desta dissertação é, portanto, contemplar os tipos de solução de tradução assumidos por tradutores e tradutoras de português-Libras e refletir sobre a possibilidade de suas escolhas indicarem um estilo próprio de traduzir influenciado não só por componentes linguísticos, mas também sociais, além de discorrer sobre procedimentos específicos adotados por esses profissionais e a multimodalidade contribuindo para tais soluções. Os aportes teóricos desta dissertação se originam dos Estudos da Tradução, da Estilística e da Sociologia da Tradução, além dos estudos acerca de procedimentos e multimodalidade. Para isso, o corpus analisado contempla a tradução para Libras da apostila Introdução aos Estudos da Tradução disponibilizada ao público no site da Videoteca Acadêmica em Libras do Departamento de Letras-Libras da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Os resultados obtidos indicaram que a tipologia proposta por Pym (2016; 2018) foi utilizada pelos tradutores e tradutoras para finalidades específicas sendo, portanto, evidente a habilidade desses profissionais em lançar mão de determinados tipos de solução de tradução de modo consciente e intencional. Além disso, camadas não só linguísticas como também sociais puderam ser constatadas à medida que o conceito bourdieusiano de habitus, aplicado ao contexto de tradução, foi investigado contribuindo para a noção de estilo da tradução. Da mesma forma, a multimodalidade no texto traduzido pôde ser percebida, dando conta não apenas dos recursos multimodais presentes no texto de partida, mas também compondo o todo semiótico e impulsionando soluções tradutórias. / [en] This Master s degree thesis presents, from the conception of translation solution types, contributions to the analysis of translations in the Portuguese-Brazilian Sign Language pair, reflecting on the concepts of procedures, style and multimodality. Although the notion of translation solution types, highlighted in the work Translation Solutions for Many Languages, by Anthony Pym, does not include the language pair discussed in the present work, it provides important subsidies for discussions regarding the decision-making that translators assume in their work and, consequently, contributes to the formative aspect of translators as it offers a wider range of available options. In this regard, the purpose of this thesis is, therefore, to contemplate the translation solution types assumed by Portuguese-Brazilian Sign Language translators and to reflect on the possibility of their choices indicating their own style of translating influenced not only by linguistic components, but also by social ones as well as to discuss specific procedures adopted by these professionals and multimodality contributing to such solutions. The theoretical contributions of this thesis stem from Translation Studies, Stylistics and Sociology of Translation, in addition to studies on procedures and multimodality. For this, the analyzed corpus includes the translation into Brazilian Sign Language of the booklet Introduction to Translation Studies available to the public on the website of the Academic Video Library in Brazilian Sign Language of the Department of Letters-Brazilian Sign Language (Libras) of the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. The results obtained indicated that the typology proposed by Pym (2016; 2018) was used by translators for specific purposes and, therefore, the ability of these professionals to make use of certain types of translation solutions consciously and intentionally is evident. Furthermore, not only linguistic but also social layers could be seen as the Bourdieusian concept of habitus, applied to the context of translation, was investigated, contributing to the notion of translation style. In the same way, the multimodality in the translated text could be perceived not only taking into account the multimodal resources present in the source text, but also composing the semiotic whole and driving translation solutions.