Corpus-based Interpreting Studies: Past, Present and Future Developments of a (Wired) Cottage Industry

Bendazzoli, Claudio

doi:10.1007/978-981-10-6199-8_1

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“…Corpus-based research is still sporadic in interpreting studies, despite Shlesinger's (1998) plea for its more widespread adoption. Overviews of corpusbased interpreting studies can be found in Straniero andFalbo (2012), andBendazzoli (2017).…”

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The cognitive load of interpreters in the European Parliament

Plevoets

Defrancq

2018

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Cognitive load is a major source of processing difficulties in both interpreting and monolingual speech. This article focuses on measurement of cognitive load by examining the occurrence rate of the disfluency uh(m) in two corpora of naturalistic language: the EPICG, with specific reference to Dutch interpretations of French source texts in the European Parliament; and the sub-corpus of non-interpreted parliamentary speeches from the Spoken Dutch Corpus. In both corpora, the frequency per utterance of uh(m) was studied, in relation to delivery rate, lexical density, presence of numbers and formulaicity (i.e. the number of N-grams), as a Generalised Additive Mixed-effects Model: the frequency in interpretations increases with the lexical density of the source text, while it is inversely related to the formulaicity of both the source text and the target text. These findings indicate the maintenance of a cognitive equilibrium between input load and output load.

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The cognitive load of interpreters in the European Parliament

Plevoets

Defrancq

2018

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“…From a methodological perspective, quality in interpretation has been evaluated through surveys (Feldweg, 1996), measures of performance through experimentation (Shlesinger, 1995), or corpusbased analysis (Bendazzoli, 2018). Different to the CS approach, which is based on automatic metrics, the analysis of data in IS is performed on the basis of a manual evaluation of the corpus data.…”

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Towards the evaluation of automatic simultaneous speech translation from a communicative perspective

Fantinuoli¹,

Prandi²

2021

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2021)

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In recent years, automatic speech-to-speech and speech-to-text translation has gained momentum thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, especially in the domains of speech recognition and machine translation. The quality of such applications is commonly tested with automatic metrics, such as BLEU, primarily with the goal of assessing improvements of releases or in the context of evaluation campaigns. However, little is known about how the output of such systems is perceived by end users or how they compare to human performances in similar communicative tasks.In this paper, we present the results of an experiment aimed at evaluating the quality of a real-time speech translation engine by comparing it to the performance of professional simultaneous interpreters. To do so, we adopt a framework developed for the assessment of human interpreters and use it to perform a manual evaluation on both human and machine performances. In our sample, we found better performance for the human interpreters in terms of intelligibility, while the machine performs slightly better in terms of informativeness. The limitations of the study and the possible enhancements of the chosen framework are discussed. Despite its intrinsic limitations, the use of this framework represents a first step towards a user-centric and communicationoriented methodology for evaluating real-time automatic speech translation.

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“…esim. Bendazzoli 2015;Bendazzoli 2018;Bernardini, Ferraresi, Russo, Collard & Defrancq 2018;Shlesinger 1998). Shlesinger (1998, 3) korostaa, että ideaalitilanteessa molemmat tulkkauskorpukset sisältävät lisäksi kohdekielen käännettyjä tekstejä.…”

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