We need more translation of good research into the popular domain to help people understand more widely what is the good research and what does it say.

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Dierstein got an idea: a website that would pair students who needed extra cash, with small businesses needing cheap, specialized services like designing a website, doing web research and translation.

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Parliamentary Standards Commissioner John Lyon found Mr MacShane had entered 19 "misleading" expenses claims for thousands of pounds of research and translation services from a body called the European Policy Institute (EPI), signed by its supposed general manager.

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This is a guest post by Nataly Kelly, Chief Research Officer at the Boston-based research firm Common Sense Advisory and author of Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World (Penguin).

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Here's how Franz Och, a distinguished research scientist at Google, sees the present state and future of machine translation online.

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