User Interface Aspects of a Translation Typing System

Langlais, Philippe; Lapalme, Guy; Sauvé, Sébastien

doi:10.1007/3-540-45153-6_24

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“…The text to be translated appears in the upper window and the translation will be composed in the bottom one". This suggestion -a document-level UI with top-bottom orientation -was later implemented in TransType: Langlais et al (2001) "tried to display the text and its translation side by side but it seems that a synchronized display of the original text and its translation one over the other is better" (emphasis added). Translog-II (Carl, 2012), a tool widely used in translation process research, also arranges the unsegmented source and target document in a top-bottom configuration.…”

Section: Text and Document Visualisation In Cat Toolsmentioning

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The Impact of Text Presentation on Translator Performance

Läubli¹,

Simianer²,

Wuebker³

et al. 2020

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Widely used computer-aided translation (CAT) tools divide documents into segments such as sentences and arrange them in a side-by-side, spreadsheet-like view. We present the first controlled evaluation of these design choices on translator performance, measuring speed and accuracy in three experimental text processing tasks. We find significant evidence that sentence-by-sentence presentation enables faster text reproduction and within-sentence error identification compared to unsegmented text, and that a top-and-bottom arrangement of source and target sentences enables faster text reproduction compared to a side-by-side arrangement. For revision, on the other hand, our results suggest that presenting unsegmented text results in the highest accuracy and time efficiency. Our findings have direct implications for best practices in designing CAT tools.

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Section: Text and Document Visualisation In Cat Toolsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Text Presentation on Translator Performance

Läubli¹,

Simianer²,

Wuebker³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Trans Type: Development-Evaluation Cycles to Boost Translator's Productivity

Langlais

Lapalme

2002

Machine Translation

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The impact of text presentation on translator performance

Läubli

Simianer²,

Wuebker³

et al. 2021

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Widely used computer-aided translation (CAT) tools divide documents into segments, such as sentences, and arrange them side-by-side in a spreadsheet-like view. We present the first controlled evaluation of these design choices on translator performance, measuring speed and accuracy in three experimental text-processing tasks. We find significant evidence that sentence-by-sentence presentation enables faster text reproduction and within-sentence error identification compared to unsegmented text, and that a top-and-bottom arrangement of source and target sentences enables faster text reproduction compared to a side-by-side arrangement. For revision, on the other hand, we find that presenting unsegmented text results in the highest accuracy and time efficiency. Our findings have direct implications for best practices in designing CAT tools.

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User Interface Aspects of a Translation Typing System

Cited by 3 publications

References 6 publications

The Impact of Text Presentation on Translator Performance

The Impact of Text Presentation on Translator Performance

Trans Type: Development-Evaluation Cycles to Boost Translator's Productivity

The impact of text presentation on translator performance

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