This article presents the results of a study involving the translation of a fictional story from English into Catalan in three modalities: machine-translated (MT), post-edited (MTPE) and translated without aid (HT). Each translation was analysed to evaluate its creativity. Subsequently, a cohort of 88 Catalan participants read the story in a randomly assigned modality and completed a survey. The results show that HT presented a higher creativity score if compared to MTPE and MT. HT also ranked higher in narrative engagement, and translation reception, while MTPE ranked marginally higher in enjoyment. HT and MTPE show no statistically significant differences in any category, whereas MT does in all variables tested. We conclude that creativity is highest when professional translators intervene in the process, especially when working without any aid. We hypothesize that creativity in translation could be the factor that enhances reading engagement and the reception of translated literary texts.

This article presents results on the correlation between machine-translated and fuzzy matches segments in terms of productivity and final quality in the context of a localization project. In order to explore these two aspects, we set up an experiment with a group of twenty four professional translators using an online post-editing tool and a customized Moses machine translation engine with a BLEU score of 0.60. The translators were asked to translate from English to Spanish, working on no-match, machine-translated and translation memory segments from the 85-94 percent value, using a post-editing tool, without actually knowing if the segment came from machine translation or from translation memory. The texts were corrected by three professional reviewers to assess the final quality of the assignment. The findings suggest that translators have higher productivity and quality when using machinetranslated output than when translating without it, and that this productivity and quality is not significantly different from the values obtained when processing fuzzy matches from translation memories in the range 85-94 percent.

This article presents the view of three professionals and researchers in the translation field about the post-editing task with a view to examining what it is known about this relatively new task both in the localization industry and in the academic arena, as well as highlighting what should be investigated further in order to shed light on different aspects of post-editing and the use of machine translation.

This chapter provides an accessible introductory view of pre-editing and post-editing as the starting-point for research or work in the language industry. It describes source text pre-editing and machine translation post-editing from an industrial as well as academic point of view. In the last ten to fifteen years, there has been a considerable growth in the number of studies and publications dealing with pre-editing, and especially postediting, that have helped researchers and the industry to understand the impact machine translation technology has on translators' output and their working environment. This interest is likely to continue in view of the recent developments in neural machine translation and artificial intelligence. Although the latest technology has taken a considerable leap forward, the existing body of work should not be disregarded as it has defined clear research lines and methods, as it is more necessary than ever to look at data in their appropriate context and avoid generalizing in the vast and diverse territory of human and machine translation.