Trados-to-Translog-II: Adding Gaze and Qualitivity data to the CRITT TPR-DB

Trados-to-Translog-II: Adding Gaze and Qualitivity data to the CRITT TPR-DB Masaru Yamada, Takanori Mizowaki Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan masaru.yamada@rikkyo.ac.jp; taka.m0118@icloud.com Longhui Zou, Michael Carl Kent State University, Ohio, USA {lzou4.mcarl6}@kent.edu Abstract The CRITT (Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology) provides a Translation Process Research Database (TPR-DB) and a rich set of summary tables and tools that help to investigate translator behavior. In this paper, we describe a new tool in the TPR-DB that converts Trados Studio keylogging data (Qualitivity) into Translog-II format and adds the converted data to the CRITT TPR-DB. The tool is also able to synchronize with the output of various eye-trackers. We describe the components of the new TPR-DB tool and highlight some of the features that it produces in the TPR-DB tables. 1 Introduction Much of the translation process research (TPR) has been conducted with Translog-II, which is an editor that allows to record keystrokes and eye tracking data during translation sessions (Carl, 2012). The collected data can then be uploaded to the Translation Process Research Database (CRITT TPR-DB) which provides numerous tools for data analysis and data visualization (Carl et al., 2016). However, Translog-II does not offer professional editing possibilities nor is it a translation environment which professional translators normally use. To alleviate these shortcomings, to emulate translators’ real-world working conditions in experimental conditions and thus increase the ecological validity of TPR, we have implemented a new Trados interface that uses Qualitivity 1 to log keystroke and that converts the output into a CRITT TPR-DB format. In addition, eye-tracking data (currently: Tobii, © 2022 The authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons 3.0 licence, no derivative works, attribution, CC- BY-ND. Eyelink, GazePoint) can be collected and synchronized with the Qualitivity keystroke data while uploading the data to the CRITT TPR-DB. 2 Uploading Trados data to TPR-DB Trados Studio2, a commercial CAT software, has a non-invasive free-of-charge plugin called Qualitivity that collects typing activities from the translator. Qualitivity captures modifications in the editor (usually induced through keystroke, but also through automated processes) and assigns each event a timestamp as well as the segment number in which the modification occurs. This data can be converted into a Translog-compatible XML format and integrated into the CRITT TPR- DB via the newly added uploading option in the CRITT TPR-DB management tool, as shown in the following Figure 1. Figure 1: Upload CRITT TPR-DB management tool 3 Synchronizing Eye-tracking data In order to investigate translator’s gazing behavior during the translation processes, we integrated an add-on to the Trados-Translog-II conversion tool that merges eye tracking data with the Qualitivity keystroke data in a seamless way. This allows us to exploit user activity data collected during translation sessions in Trados as a combination of eye movement and keyboard logging. However, unlike Translog-II, Trados (or Qualitivity) does not offer the possibility to connect directly to external eye trackers. Qualitivity also does not record where on the screen (X/Y positions) the edited word or segment occurs. Due to …

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