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There’s more to machine translation than meets the eye! The CRTC mandates the use of plain language in communications between mobile service providers and customers. This study repurposes a machine translation system as a plain language checker to…

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We know that social media is popular for personal use, but is it worth the effort for institutions? Taking the Government of Canada Translation Bureau’s “Our Languages” blog as an example, this project investigates the level of public engagement – et…

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Is the plant-based food movement changing our language? This study used the News On the Web corpus to investigate whether legislation to replace terms such as ‘soy milk’ or ‘veggie burger’ with ‘plant-based beverage’ or ‘veggie disc’ is effective.…
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