Optimising the Machine Translation Post-editing Workflow

Zaretskaya, Anna; TransPerfect, Spain

doi:10.26615/issn.2683-0078.2019_018

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“…Another insight from the current study supports the notion that MT technology has not been able to replace human translator. Nonetheless, it is impossible to deny the benefits of using MT technology in assisting professional translators in making their jobs efficient [7], [36], [37], [38], [39]. With reference to the findings of this study, four issues arise in relation to how MT should be perceived in the context of professional translation training program in the digital age.…”

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The Equivalence Problems Produced by Machine Translation on A Literary Text: A Study on The Indonesian Translation of Harry Potter: The Order of Phoenix

2023

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Google Translate (GT) is a machine translator (MT) this is powered by neural machine technology (NMT) which can produce generally fluent textual translation in more than 100 languages with 60% accuracy. Studies have been done to measure GT ability in translating texts and the quality of its translation products. The results showed that GT’s products are generally satisfying but they have inadequacies at some level of translation aspects. This study aims at finding the problems of equivalence that resulted from the process translating a Harry Potter novel, a literary work that is rich with cultural words and complex sentences, using GT from the English language into the Indonesian language. Using a descriptive qualitative method, the current study examines the problem of equivalence based on Mona Baker’s theory to categorize the translation errors found in the GT output text. This study showed that literary texts are still problematic for GT in terms of words that two languages do not share and sentences that contain several points of view. This paper suggest that GT has to update its database of Indonesian lexicons and any MT output has to go post-editing process in order to ensure its readability and naturalness to its target readers. The implication of this study emphasizes the need to concentrate on translation training programs in the post-editing work.

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The Equivalence Problems Produced by Machine Translation on A Literary Text: A Study on The Indonesian Translation of Harry Potter: The Order of Phoenix

2023

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“…Integration of MT with the TM can take various forms. Often (and particularly in early integrations) an MT suggestion would be generated for those segments for which there were no full or fuzzy TM matches (Zaretskaya 2019). The logic is that even a fuzzy TM match is more useful to the translator than an MT suggestion, so the TM takes precedence and the MT is on where the TM can offer no assistance.…”

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Translating Technical Texts

Olohan¹

2022

The Cambridge Handbook of Translation

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Olohan, Maeve (2021) 'Translating Technical Texts', in Kirsten Malmkjaer (ed.) Cambridge Handbook of Translation,Cambridge: CUP.now likely to be a modular assembly of numerous pieces of topic-based content, some of which could also be used in online help files, or even in a marketing brochure. Additionally, a single source of content may be used to produce a range of output types for different media or publishing channels, e.g., for print, website or mobile app. Responsive design delivers dynamic formatting so that the content can be viewed optimally, regardless of the platform on which it is published. However, like topic-based authoring, this practice of single-source authoring can have an impact on decisions about what information to communicate and how (ibid.)Rather than consider further how a technical text might be defined and delimited, it may be more productive to focus our attention on the practices in which technical content figures. From a practice-theoretical perspective, the social realm is conceptualised as a "nexus" or "plenum" of practices (Schatzki 2001, 2; 2016, 6). Thus, to understand the nature of one practice, we can investigate both how it is constituted and how it connects with other practices. As indicated above, technical communication involves authoring practices of various kinds, and it is helpful to consider the practice of technical translation as being closely connected to those practices of technical authoring, as is done in Maylath and St. Amant's (2019) guide to translation and localisation in technical communication. Generally speaking, before technical content is translated into target languages (TLs), it is first produced in the source language (SL). Even if assembled in modular fashion, the content that is used to produce technical specifications, product descriptions, instruction guides, user manuals, software user interfaces, help files, etc. is usually first created by technical authors.

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“…The study of cohesion and coherence is conducted in the case of this research within a greater practical framework of an equivalence significant analysis based on a theoretically well-formed translation comparison and a highly sophisticated translation corpus (Halliday and Hasan, 1976). Though features of cohesion and coherence might operate and adapt correspondence at the syntactic, lexical-semantic, and terminological phraseological levels (Zaretskaya, 2019), additional systematic research is needed to examine cohesion as a distinctive characteristic of the translated text level. This displays how equivalence links function there and classifies patterns in translation explanations, which might be put into practice in the implemented divisions of the field.…”

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Cohesive connectivity in argumentative writing by EFL students

Khotaba

2022

GJFLT

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In a study carried out on EFL students’ translation skills, it was found that they commonly encounter problems related to concepts’ structural organization in the translated text. This research aimed to examine cohesion and coherence in argumentative writing by EFL students at the University of Tabuk for the academic year 2022/2023. The theoretical framework of the study is based on Halliday and Hasan's (1976) theory of coherence and cohesion shifts in translation. This qualitative study included 15 participants in their third-year EFL students from the Department of Languages and Translation at the University of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia. Participants were selected purposively. Argumentative written texts were the instrument used to collect data in this study. Results showed that students encountered cohesion and coherence problems in achieving written texts’ unity, particularly in assigning their concepts and implementing appropriate cohesive signals, punctuation, and spelling issues. Keywords: Argumentative writing; cohesion; coherence; EFL; writing

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Optimising the Machine Translation Post-editing Workflow

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The Equivalence Problems Produced by Machine Translation on A Literary Text: A Study on The Indonesian Translation of Harry Potter: The Order of Phoenix

The Equivalence Problems Produced by Machine Translation on A Literary Text: A Study on The Indonesian Translation of Harry Potter: The Order of Phoenix

Translating Technical Texts

Cohesive connectivity in argumentative writing by EFL students

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