Guerberof Arenas, Ana ORCID: 0000-0001-9820-7074 (2014) The role of professional experience in post-editing from a quality and productivity perspective. In: O'Brien, Sharon ORCID: 0000-0003-4864-5986, Winther Balling, Laura, Carl, Michael, Simard, Michel and Specia, Lucia, (eds.) Post-editing of Machien Translation: processes and applications. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 51-76. ISBN 978-1-4438-5476-4
Abstract
In this chapter, we present results on the impact of professional experience on the task of post-editing. These results are part of a larger research project where 24 translators and three reviewers were tested to obtain productivity, words per minute, and quality data, errors in final target texts, in the post-editing of machine translation (MT) and fuzzy match segments (in the 85 to 94 range). We will discuss here the results on the participants’ experience according to their responses in a post-assignment questionnaire and explain how they were grouped into different clusters in order to correlate firstly the experience with speed according to the words per minute in the different match categories: Fuzzy matches, MT matches (MT output) and No match and secondly, to correlate them with the quality provided by measuring the errors marked by the three reviewers in each match category. Finally, conclusions will be drawn in relation to the experience and the resulting speed and number of errors.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | post-editing; experience; machine translation; professional translation; novice translation; quality |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Computational linguistics Computer Science > Machine translating Humanities > Language Humanities > Translating and interpreting |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT |
Publisher: | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Copyright Information: | All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
ID Code: | 23642 |
Deposited On: | 19 Aug 2019 10:58 by Ana Guerberof . Last Modified 19 Aug 2019 10:59 |
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