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2. List of linguists - Wikipedia

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   A linguist in the academic sense is a person who studies natural language (an academic discipline known as linguistics).Ambiguously, the word is sometimes also used to refer to a polyglot (one who knows several languages), a translator/interpreter (especially in the military), or a grammarian (a scholar of grammar), but these uses of the word are distinct (and one does not have to be ...

3. Global Linguist Solutions - Wikipedia

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   DynCorp International (51%) AECOM National Security Programs (49%) Website. www.gls-corp.com. Global Linguist Solutions (GLS) is an American professional services contracting company headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. GLS was the main provider of interpreters, translators, and linguistic support to the Iraq War.

4. Machine translation - Wikipedia

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   Claude Piron, a long-time translator for the United Nations and the World Health Organization, wrote that machine translation, at its best, automates the easier part of a translator's job; the harder and more time-consuming part usually involves doing extensive research to resolve ambiguities in the source text, which the grammatical and ...

5. Not Lost in Translation -- Jobs for Linguists - AOL

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   In the modern business world, the ability to communicate in more than one language can be a tremendous asset. The person who can speak and write multiple languages will be in greater demand, as ...

6. Juliane House - Wikipedia

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   She is a senior member of the German Science Foundation’s Research Centre on Multilingualism [3] at the University of Hamburg, [2] where she has directed several projects on translation and interpreting. Her research interests include translation theory and practice, contrastive pragmatics, discourse analysis, politeness theory, English as ...

7. Language interpretation - Wikipedia

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   Legal interpreting can be the consecutive interpretation of witnesses' testimony, for example, or the simultaneous interpretation of entire proceedings, by electronic means, for one person, or all of the people attending. In a legal context, where ramifications of misinterpretation may be dire, accuracy is paramount.