Investigating Distinctive Problems Observed in Post-editing of Machine Translation Output Made by Indonesian Undergraduate Students

Harto, Sri; Musthafa, Bachrudin; Setyarini, Sri

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“…In addition to grammar and vocabulary, the above findings, as presented in Figure 3, also indicated that undergraduate students were faced with these other particular problems identified by some researchers in the relevant fields, i.e. grammar, vocabularies, and technical terms (Harto et al, 2020a;Yamada, 2019), lexico-grammatical patterns (Martikainen, 2019), complex sentences, strange phrases, slang words, and idioms (Quah, 2006), and lexico-semantic (Sycz-Opon & Galuskina, 2017). The students found problems with English tenses and collocations, for instance, particularly when they translated texts from Indonesian into English.…”

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Exploring undergraduate students’ experiences in dealing with post-editing of machine translation

Harto

Hamied

Musthafa

et al. 2022

Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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Although post-editing of machine translation (PEMT) has been much discussed and spoken among students in higher education institutions, little empirical evidence has been reported regarding the students’ real practices in their academic life. To fill this practical gap, this article explores the students’ experiences in dealing with PEMT in a Theoretical Foundation of Translating and Interpreting (TFTI) course. This exploration elaborates practical insights into how the students initially started practicing translation through PEMT in their actual day-to-day practices. Fifty-eight English students studying in an undergraduate program in a prominent public university in Indonesia voluntarily participated in this qualitative case study. Data were collected from students’ focused-group discussion (FGD), survey questionnaire, in-depth interviews, and students’ documents and the data were analyzed using thematic analysis. Findings showed that post-editing process provides the students with experiences in building their text knowledge to enable them to have high awareness and sensitivity to the academic texts. In addition, in PEMT practices, the students’ experiences were explored through the implementation of translation methods and techniques expected to build their awareness in PEMT with regard to language structure and language function. These experiences have given some empirical inputs for the lecturers to design relevant tasks and apply various translating practices for students’ more meaningful learning.

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Exploring undergraduate students’ experiences in dealing with post-editing of machine translation

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Hamied

Musthafa

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Indonesian J. Appl. Linguist.

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“…The rule-based performance in data analysis in this study was focused on errors analysis performed by the students in applying the skills and knowledge of grammatical rules from the source language to the target language. Inappropriate use of grammatical rules in the students' post-editing practices was found to be one of the challenges encountered by the students (Harto, Musthafa, & Setyarini, 2020). In this research context, the source language texts were English and the target language texts were Indonesian.…”

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“…Student translators who were considered to be inexperienced translators were commonly identified to encounter this problem (Daems, Vandepitte, Hartsuiker, & Macken, 2017). In the PEMT practices, therefore, the students as post-editors were advised to maintain consistency in using specific terminologies (Harto, Musthafa, & Setyarini, 2020). Examples of the inconsistent use of terms found in the students' postediting practice (Text: The Jakarta Post, February 21, 2020) including the use of words such as "masker" and "masker wajah" which are actually referring to the same object, "face mask".…”

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“…An editor, in this particular context, was the student who practiced post-editing, should be sensitive and have a good understanding of the subject knowledge of the field (Neubert, 2000). Errors in understanding the context of the sentences or the context of the texts can lead to errors in using the right terminologies (Harto, Musthafa, & Setyarini, 2020). This error would make the meaning of the word ambiguous and give a new meaning.…”

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Students’ Linguistic Challenges in Post-Editing of Machine Translation

Harto¹,

Hamied²,

Musthafa³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language, Literature, Culture, and Education (ICOLLITE 2021)

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This research seeks to investigate linguistic challenges encountered by students in translating news from English into Indonesian through a process of post-editing of machine translation (PEMT). Since the research on this particular language pair has not been widely explored by Indonesian researchers, therefore, this study should be thoroughly undertaken to provide the students with a comprehensive description of the linguistic problems faced in their translating activities. A qualitative method with a case study design was implemented to portray 58 students who voluntarily participated in the PEMT process. Research data were obtained from students' survey questionnaires, students' in-depth interviews, and students' translation documents taken from some online media individually selected by students in a Practice of Translating (PoT) course. The data were analyzed by using a thematic analysis with regard to the students' translating activities and their obstacles found during PEMT practices. Three dominant themes drawn from the data, including: students' insufficient subject knowledge in translating proper names; particular grammatical problems found in the use of pronouns and in the differences of language structures between English and Indonesian; and mechanical errors identified in the use of punctuations, capitalization, spelling, and inconsistency in using specific terminologies. These research findings have recommended that appropriate teaching techniques should be created by the lecturers to optimally reach the objectives of PEMT teaching.

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Investigating Distinctive Problems Observed in Post-editing of Machine Translation Output Made by Indonesian Undergraduate Students

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