Folk-lore, política y literatura popular en el siglo XIX (cartas inéditas de A. Machado y Álvarez a Teófilo Braga)

Neste artigo publicam-se, editam-se e comentam-se pela primeira vez as cartas enviadas pelo fundador da sociedade El Folk-Lore Español, Antonio Machado y Álvarez, ao ilustre polígrafo e líder português Teófilo Braga, conservadas actualmente na Biblioteca Pública e Arquivo de Ponta Delgada (Açores). Através destas treze cartas podemos conhecer mais em detalhe as estreitas relações entre os folcloristas portugueses e espanhóis no século XIX, assim como aprofundar as implicações ideológicas e políticas do inovador conceito de Folclore que ambos partilhavam. No final do artigo inclui-se um Apêndice bibliográfico de temas e autores portugueses nas publicações da sociedade de El Folk-Lore Español.

French-greek machine translation of imperative sentences: issues in aspect and mood from a controlled language perspective

The present dissertation examines how grammatical aspect and mood are handled by machine translation (MT) systems within the scope of imperative sentences (orders, recommendations) when dealing with the language pair French-Greek (unidirectional, towards Greek). As the grammatical category of aspect is not expressed in the same way in both languages, choosing the correct aspect value when translating a verb from French to Greek can pose problems. We are interested in describing the types of errors that occur and their frequency in a corpus taken from texts pertaining to the security domain and from technical manuals, where imperative sentences are very common. In order to further delimit our research, our sample consists of sentences that comply with the general principles of simplicity and readability provided by several controlled language guidelines and aimed at higher translatability when having MT in mind. In a second phase, this study aims at discovering how modifying some of the control rules would help (or not) the MT systems better decide upon the translation of aspect and mood.