Human Translation

Previous studies have shown automatic evalu- ation metrics to be more reliable when com- pared against many human translations. How- ever, multiple human references may not al- ways be available. …...

In human translation, translators first make draft translations and then modify them. This paper analyses these modifications, in order to identify the features that trigger modification. Our goal is to …...

This paper presents a few ideas of the Center for Translation Studies at University of Illinois on the present and future of human and machine transla­ tion. In particular, as …...

AbstractThis paper reports on an experiment where 795 human participants answered to the questions taken from second language proficiency tests that were translated to their native language. The output of …...

AbstractMany studies have confirmed that translated texts exhibit different features than texts originally written in the given language. This work explores texts translated by different translators taking into account expertise …...

AbstractThe past few years have seen the multiplication of studies on post-editese, following the massive adoption of post-editing in professional translation workflows. These studies mainly rely on the comparison of …...

AbstractIn this work, we analyse different translated texts in terms of various text features. We compare two types of human translations, professional and students’, and machine translation outputs in terms …...