What Influences the Features of Post-Editese? A Preliminary Study

Castilho, Sheila; Resende, Natália; Mitkov, Ruslan

doi:10.26615/issn.2683-0078.2019_003

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“…Contrary to the results reported by Daems et al [2] Castilho et al [22] found evidence for the existence of post-editese while investigating the features of PE texts in a corpus composed of HT, MT and PE texts in two domains: News and Literature. The authors also tested whether the PE level, the translators' experience, as well as the text domains influence the magnitude of the post-editese features.…”

Section: The Phenomenon Of Post-editesementioning

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“…In the next subsections, we present the translationese features that will be addressed in the present study. The examination of these features along with findings reported in the post-editese literature [20][21][22] guide our experiments and analysis. Based on the results of our experiments, we discuss how our study can contribute to the quality of post-edited literary texts.…”

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“…The hypotheses raised by Baker [7] on the characteristics common to all translated texts have aroused the interest of several researchers in the field of translation studies to investigate whether translationese features are manifested on the surface of translated texts. More recently, as the increased need for translation productivity in a globalised society resulted in the post-editing of the MT output, a number of studies [e.g., [20][21][22] from the natural language processing and MT fields have been discussing and investigating whether there are universal patterns typical of PE texts. Hence, the focus of attention has shifted from the typical features of HT texts to the typical features of PE texts.…”

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Post-editese in Literary Translations

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Resende²

2021

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In the present study, we investigate the post-editese phenomenon, i.e., the unique features that set machine translated post-edited texts apart from human-translated texts. We use two literary texts, namely, the English children's novel by Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (AW) and Paula Hawkins' popular book The Girl on the Train (TGOTT) translated from English into Brazilian-Portuguese to investigate whether the post-editese features can be found on the surface of the post-edited (PE) texts. In addition, we examine how the features found in the PE texts differ from the features encountered in the human-translated (HT) and machine translation (MT) versions of the same source text. Results revealed evidence for post-editese for TGOTT only with PE versions being more similar to the MT output than to the HT texts.

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Section: The Phenomenon Of Post-editesementioning

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Post-editese in Literary Translations

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2021

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“…Effects of Post-editing: In recent years, a large number of human translation jobs are performed by post-editing MT output, which can result in MT artefacts remaining even after manual post-editing (Castilho, Resende, & Mitkov, 2019;Daems, Vandepitte, Hartsuiker, & Macken, 2017;Toral, 2019).…”

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“…For example, the synonyms used in an original text may be replaced by a single translation. These differences are referred to as translationese, and have been shown to affect translation quality in the field of machine translation (Castilho et al, 2019;Daems, De Clercq, & Macken, 2017;Kurokawa, Goutte, & Isabelle, 2009;Toral, 2019).…”

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A Set of Recommendations for Assessing Human–Machine Parity in Language Translation

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The quality of machine translation has increased remarkably over the past years, to the degree that it was found to be indistinguishable from professional human translation in a number of empirical investigations. We reassess Hassan et al.'s 2018 investigation into Chinese to English news translation, showing that the finding of human-machine parity was owed to weaknesses in the evaluation design-which is currently considered best practice in the field. We show that the professional human translations contained significantly fewer errors, and that perceived quality in human evaluation depends on the choice of raters, the availability of linguistic context, and the creation of reference translations. Our results call for revisiting current best practices to assess strong machine translation systems in general and human-machine parity in particular, for which we offer a set of recommendations based on our empirical findings.

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Lore Vandevoorde, Joke Daems, and Bart Defrancq (eds.): New Empirical Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting

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2020

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The book New Empirical Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting, edited by Lore Vandevoorde, Joke Daems, and Bart Defrancq, presents methodological approaches in Translation and Interpreting with a view to strengthening the theoretical and empirical links between the two disciplines. Following the introduction, the volume brings together eleven research papers (coherently divided into three thematic units) and two theoretical papers. Contributors include both early-career and established scholars from Translation Studies and Interpreting Studies. In the introduction, the editors do an excellent job at highlighting theoretical and methodological ties among chapters on Translation and Interpreting. Furthermore, the contributions include experimental research and corpus-based methods that cut across Translation and Interpreting and bring the disciplines closer. If studies relying on different (e.g. qualitative) methodological approaches had also been included, additional commonalities between Translation and Interpreting might have emerged.With regard to the individual research papers, they differ considerably in their consideration of the ties between the disciplines. There is also variability among research papers in their inclusion of relevant (interdisciplinary) research, descriptions of study setups, and discussion of high-level (practical or theoretical) implications. As far as the theoretical chapters at the end of the volume are concerned, they do not include efforts to provide a unified theoretical framework for Translation and Interpreting Studies. They do, however, help contextualise the findings reported in the research papers. That said, one way of increasing the overall coherence of the book would have been if the editors had established a stronger dialogue among the chapters (e.g. through cross-references). Furthermore, if most chapters had addressed or considered a technology component, the connection with the technologies discussed by the editors in Chapter 1 would have been stronger.Despite limitations such as this, this edited book is noteworthy for its overview of how theories and methodologies for Translation and Interpreting have evolved (sometimes overlapping and sometimes diverging) over the years. It also provides valuable guidance on how to address methodological and theoretical challenges in future research. Students and scholars from Translation Studies, Interpreting Studies, and interdisciplinary research are likely

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What Influences the Features of Post-Editese? A Preliminary Study

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Post-editese in Literary Translations

Post-editese in Literary Translations

A Set of Recommendations for Assessing Human–Machine Parity in Language Translation

Lore Vandevoorde, Joke Daems, and Bart Defrancq (eds.): New Empirical Perspectives on Translation and Interpreting

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