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On the differences between human translations

Popović, Maja orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-8234-8745 (2020) On the differences between human translations. In: 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2020), 3 -5 Nov 2020, Lisbon, Portugal (Online).

Abstract
Many studies have confirmed that translated texts exhibit different features than texts originally written in the given language. This work explores texts translated by different translators taking into account expertise and native language. A set of computational analyses was conducted on three language pairs, English-Croatian, German-French and English-Finnish, and the results show that each of the factors has certain influence on the features of the translated texts, especially on sentence length and lexical richness. The results also indicate that for translations used for machine translation evaluation, it is important to specify these factors, especially when comparing machine translation quality with human translation quality.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Computational linguistics
Computer Science > Machine translating
Humanities > Translating and interpreting
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT
Published in: Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. . European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT).
Publisher:European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)
Copyright Information:© 2020 The author. CC-BY-ND-4.0
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland through the SFI Research Centres Programme and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Grant 13/RC/2106.
ID Code:24683
Deposited On:08 Sep 2020 15:40 by Maja Popovic . Last Modified 08 Sep 2020 15:40
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