Senior Lecturer Ignacio Garcia

• Biography
• Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise
• Publications
• Professional Memberships
• Contact Details

Biography

Dr Ignacio Garcia is a senior lecturer at the School of Humanities and Languages, University of Western Sydney, where he teaches and researches in the areas of Spanish and Latin American studies, and translation English-Spanish and translation technologies. He has widely published on these areas in academic and professional journals. His current research projects involve dealing with the integration of translation memory and machine translation systems, and with the evaluation of unassisted machine translation.

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise

Computer-assisted Translation; Spanish & Latin American Studies

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Publications

On Translation

Book chapters

Garcia, I. (2009). Research on translation tools. In A. Pym & A. Perestrenko (eds.) Translation Research Projects 2. Intercultural Studies Group: Tarragona.

Journal articles (Academic)

Garcia, I. (2010). Is Machine Translation Ready Yet? Target 22:1, 7-21.

Garcia, I. (2009). Beyond Translation Memory: Computers and the    Professional Translator. Journal of Specialised Translation, 12 (http://www.jostrans.org/issue12/art_garcia.pdf).

Garcia, I. (2008). Power shifts in web-based translation memory, Perspectives-Studies in Translatology, vol 21, no. 1, pp 55-68.

Garcia, I. (2008). Translating and Revising for Localisation: What do We Know? What do We Need to Know, Machine Translation, vol 16, no. 1-2, pp 49-60.

Garcia, I. (2007). Power Shifts in Web-based Translation Memory. Machine Translation 21: 55-68.

Garcia, I. (2006). Formatting and the Translator: Why XLIFF Does Matter. Localisation Focus – The International Journal of Localisation, 5, 2.

Garcia, I. (2006). The Bottom Line. Does Text Reuse Translate into Gains in Productivity? The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 2, 1.

Journal articles (Industry)

Garcia, I. & V. Stevenson (2009). Translation trends and the social web. Multilingual, 103: 28-31.

Garcia, I. (2003). Standard bearers: TM brand profiles at Lantra-L. Translation Journal, 7, 4.

On Spanish & Latin American Studies

Books

Garcia, I. (2002). Operación Canguro. The Spanish Migration Scheme, 1958-1963. Sydney: Spanish Heritage Foundation.

Edited books

Garcia, I. and A. Maraver (eds.) (1999). Memories of Migration. Seminar Proceedings. Sydney: Spanish Heritage Foundation.

Book chapters

Garcia, I. (1999). Nos han engañado. El programa de emigración asistida de España a Australia, in I. Garcia and A. Maraver Memories of Migration. Seminar Proceedings. Sydney: Spanish Heritage Foundation.

García, I. (1998) From Federation to Sydney 2000. One Hundred Years of Spanish Presence in Australia in J. Blanco et al. Towards Sydney 2000. A Spanish Perspective. Sydney: Spanish Consulate General.

Journal articles (Academic)

Garcia, I. (2002). Rubén Darío y Francisco Grandmontagne en el Buenos Aires de 1898. La redefinición de los conceptos de hispanismo en América y de americanismo en España . Revista Iberoamericana, LXVIII, 198.

Garcia, I. (2001). El oro de América. La contribución de los emigrantes del Plata al Tesoro de la Unión Republicana. Anuario de Estudios Americanos, vol LVIII: 1.

Garcia, I. (1999). ... y a sus plantas rendido un león. Xenofobia antiespañola en Argentina, 1890-1900 , Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos. Año 13, No. 39.

Garcia, I. (1999). Nos han engañado. El programa de emigración asistida de España a Australia, in I. Garcia and A. Maraver Memories of Migration. Seminar Proceedings. Sydney: Spanish Heritage Foundation.

García, I. (1998) Voluntarios españoles del Río de la Plata en la guerra de Cuba, Cuadernos Hispanoamericanos. No. 577-578.

García, I. (1997) El 2 de Mayo de 1898 en el Teatro Victoria de Buenos Aires, Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies , Vol. 3, No. 2.

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Professional Membership

Editor of Translation & Interpreting. The international journal of translation and interpreting research (opens in a new window).

NAATI Professional Translator (En-Es) No. 16022.

Member Australian Institute of Interpreters and Translators (AUSIT)

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