Postediting machine translation output and its revision: subject-matter experts versus professional translators
The present research compares engineers’ and professional translators’ postediting a technical text in terms of speed, documentation and changes. It also compares the postedited texts with regard to quality. Further, we explore which of the following workflows is faster and produces outputs of highe...
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| Tipo de documento: | tese |
| Estado: | Versão publicada |
| Data de publicação: | 2013 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Universitat Rovira i virgili (URV) |
| Repositório: | Repositori Institucional de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:urv.cat:TDX:1287 |
| Acesso em linha: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1287 http://hdl.handle.net/10803/128204 |
| Access Level: | Acceso aberto |
| Palavra-chave: | 8 - Lingüística i literatura 378 - Ensenyament superior. Universitats 371 - Organització i gestió de l'educació i de l'ensenyament |
| Resumo: | The present research compares engineers’ and professional translators’ postediting a technical text in terms of speed, documentation and changes. It also compares the postedited texts with regard to quality. Further, we explore which of the following workflows is faster and produces outputs of higher quality: Postediting MT output by engineers and revising the postedited text by professional translators, or vice-versa. The findings suggest that expertise and experience in the subject-matter are the main factors determining postediting quality. When the recurrent errors are penalized, the engineers’ postediting of technical texts is of significantly higher quality than the translators’. The translators’ and the engineers’ postediting and revision speed did not differ significantly. For technical texts, the quality improvement brought about by engineer-revision of translator-postediting is higher than vice-versa. Further, the quality of the postedited texts and their revised versions (either performed by professional translators or engineers) changes significantly as a result of penalizing and unpenalizing recurrent errors. |
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