Routledge Studies in Translation Technology and Techno-Humanities
About the Book Series
This cutting edge research series examines translation technology and explores the relationships between human beings and machines in translating the written and spoken word. The series welcomes authored monographs and edited collections.
Embracing Techno-humanities in the Age of AI
1st Edition
By Chan Sin-wai
May 07, 2026
Chan writes about his own journey from traditional humanities to an embrace of techno-humanities. Through revisiting his past publications, Chan argues that keeping pace with technological changes that are taking place in academia as well as the digital world in which we live has become imperative....
Technology for Translating, Visualizing, and Generating Recipes: Multimodal Machine Translation of Chinese into English
1st Edition
By Chan Sin-wai
November 21, 2025
This book details the process of building a Chinese-English machine translation system that automatically translates Chinese recipes into English through machine processing without human intervention (TransRecipe). This system is able to translate recipes into pictures and videos (VisualRecipe) ...
Translation Studies in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
1st Edition
Edited
By Sanjun Sun, Kanglong Liu, Riccardo Moratto
June 10, 2025
Sun, Liu, Moratto, and the team of contributors provide an in-depth exploration of the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in the ever-evolving field of translation studies. With key insights to inform future research on this rapidly evolving field in translation, this book offers a ...
Advances in Techno-Humanities: Case Studies from Culture, Philosophy and the Arts
1st Edition
Edited
By Mak Kin-wah
January 30, 2025
This book is a pioneering attempt to explore the relationships between technology and the humanities through case studies and specific contexts in the areas of language, theatre, literature, translation, philosophy, music, home designations, learning environment, and artificial intelligence. ...
Applying Technology to Language and Translation
1st Edition
Edited
By Leung Sze Ming, Chan Sin-wai
December 31, 2024
A cutting-edge collection of work on the influence and application of new technologies on the study and practice of language and translation. This book analyzes the relationship between technology, language, and translation in the digital age. Language issues covered include an ...
Analysing English-Arabic Machine Translation: Google Translate, Microsoft Translator and Sakhr
1st Edition
By Zakaryia Almahasees
May 31, 2023
Machine Translation (MT) has become widely used throughout the world as a medium of communication between those who live in different countries and speak different languages. However, translation between distant languages constitutes a challenge for machines. Therefore, translation evaluation is ...
Controlled Document Authoring in a Machine Translation Age
1st Edition
By Rei Miyata
April 29, 2022
This book explains the concept, framework, implementation, and evaluation of controlled document authoring in this age of translation technologies. Machine translation (MT) is routinely used in many situations, by companies, governments, and individuals. Despite recent advances, MT tools are still ...
The Human Factor in Machine Translation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sin-wai Chan
December 17, 2019
Machine translation has become increasingly popular, especially with the introduction of neural machine translation in major online translation systems. However, despite the rapid advances in machine translation, the role of a human translator remains crucial. As illustrated by the chapters in this...
The Future of Translation Technology: Towards a World without Babel
1st Edition
By Chan Sin-wai
September 25, 2019
Technology has revolutionized the field of translation, bringing drastic changes to the way translation is studied and done. To an average user, technology is simply about clicking buttons and storing data. What we need to do is to look beyond a system’s interface to see what is at work and what ...