Translation in transition : human and machine intelligence / edited by Isabel Lacruz, Kent State University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lacruz, Isabel, editor.

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Series:

American Translators Association scholarly monograph series ; v. xx.

American Translators Association scholarly monograph ; volume XX

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Machine translating.

Translating and interpreting--Technological innovations.

Translating and interpreting.

Translating and interpreting--Psychological aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 285 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Human and machine intelligence

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2023]

Contents:

Intro

Translation in Transition

Editorial page

Title page

Copyright page

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Translation in transition

References

Chapter 2 The strange attractions of translation

Introduction

Complex systems

Kiraly, complexity, and competence

Translation

The unpredictability of translation systems

First thought experiment

Second thought experiment

The emergence of order in translation performance

Performance clustering and translational strange attractors

Default translation as strange attractor

Expertise trajectory

Conclusions

Chapter 3 Post-editing and a sustainable future for translators

The status quo

Use of machine translation in the industry

MT usage by LSPs in Japan and other countries

ISO 18587

Full post-editing

Light post-editing

Differences by translation production process

Post-editing and the future of the translation industry

The HT and PE divide

Previous research on PE

Efficiency

Quality

Effort and amount of editing

Pause analysis

The problem of inter-experimental comparison

Is there a difference between PE and HT?

Post-editing of NMT

Relationship between MT error and cognitive load

Comprehensive translation and search skills

Conclusion

Funding

Chapter 4 An eye-tracking study of productivity and effort in Chinese-to-English translation and post-editing

1. Introduction

2. Effort in post-editing

2.1 General considerations on post-editing

2.2 Definition and measurement of effort in post-editing and translation

3. Methodology

3.1 Overview

3.2 Participants

3.3 Materials

3.4 Apparatus

3.5 Procedure

3.5.1 Environment

3.5.2 Task execution

4. Results and discussion

4.1 Data quality

4.2 Analyses

4.2.1 Average processing time

Discussion

4.2.2 Quality as a potential confounding variable

4.2.3 Pupil dilation

4.2.4 Average fixation duration

Average fixation duration in source and target text combined

Average fixation duration in source text only

Average fixation duration in target text only

Discussion (ST only and TT only)

5. Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

Chapter 5 Recent claims of human-machine parity in translation highlight core issues surrounding the human evaluation of machine translation

2. 2018

2.1 Human evaluation of MT

2.2 Critics of Hassan et al.'s (2018) claims of HMPT

3. WMT19

4. WMT20

Chapter 6 In the eye of the beholder

2. Empirical approaches to translation reception

2.1 Conceptions of translation reception in linguistic and functional approaches

2.2 Conceptions of translation reception in cultural and literary approaches

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Amsterdam, Netherlands Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 28, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Translation in transition

ISBN:

9789027249760

9027249768

Publisher Number:

99995729318

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.