Source or target first? Comparison of two post-editing strategies with translation students

We conducted an experiment with translation students to assess the influence of two different post-editing (PE) strategies (reading the source segment or the target segment first) on three aspects: PE time, ratio of corrected errors and number of optional modifications per word. Our results showed t...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of data mining and digital humanities Jg. Towards robotic translation?; H. II. Pedagogical practices
Hauptverfasser: Volkart, Lise, Girletti, Sabrina, Gerlach, Johanna, Mutal, Jonathan David, Bouillon, Pierrette
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: INRIA 21.12.2022
Nicolas Turenne
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Computation and Language
Computer Science
machine translation
post-editing
post-editing environment
post-editing strategies
post-editing teaching
reading strategy
machine translation
post-editing environment
post-editing strategies
post-editing
post-editing teaching
reading strategy
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Abstract We conducted an experiment with translation students to assess the influence of two different post-editing (PE) strategies (reading the source segment or the target segment first) on three aspects: PE time, ratio of corrected errors and number of optional modifications per word. Our results showed that the strategy that is adopted has no influence on the PE time or ratio of corrected errors. However, it does have an influence on the number of optional modifications per word. Two other thought-provoking observations emerged from this study: first, the ratio of corrected errors showed that, on average, students correct only half of the MT errors, which underlines the need for PE practice. Second, the time logs of the experiment showed that when students are not forced to read the source segment first, they tend to neglect the source segment and almost do monolingual PE. This experiment provides new insight relevant to PE teaching as well as the designing of PE environments.
AbstractList We conducted an experiment with translation students to assess the influence of two different post-editing (PE) strategies (reading the source segment or the target segment first) on three aspects: PE time, ratio of corrected errors and number of optional modifications per word. Our results showed that the strategy that is adopted has no influence on the PE time or ratio of corrected errors. However, it does have an influence on the number of optional modifications per word. Two other thought-provoking observations emerged from this study: first, the ratio of corrected errors showed that, on average, students correct only half of the MT errors, which underlines the need for PE practice. Second, the time logs of the experiment showed that when students are not forced to read the source segment first, they tend to neglect the source segment and almost do monolingual PE. This experiment provides new insight relevant to PE teaching as well as the designing of PE environments.
Author Mutal, Jonathan David
Bouillon, Pierrette
Girletti, Sabrina
Gerlach, Johanna
Volkart, Lise
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post-editing environment
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reading strategy
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