Post-editing for Professional Translators : Cheer or Fear?

  1. Alvarez-Vidal, Sergi 1
  2. Oliver, Antoni 2
  3. Badia, Toni 1
  1. 1 Universitat Pompeu Fabra
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    Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Barcelona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04n0g0b29

    Geographic location of the organization Universitat Pompeu Fabra
  2. 2 Universitat Oberta de Cataunya, Espanya
Journal:
Revista tradumàtica: traducció i tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació

ISSN: 1578-7559

Year of publication: 2020

Issue: 18

Pages: 49-69

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5565/REV/TRADUMATICA.275 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDDD editor

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Abstract

Currently, post-editing of machine translation (MT) has been introduced as a regular practice in the translation workflow, especially since the good results in quality obtained by neural MT (NMT). This fact is linked to the efforts LSPs and customers have done to reduce costs due to the recent global crisis and the increasing globalization, which has had a negative impact on translators' revenues and on their working practices. In this context, post-editing is often perceived with a negative bias by translators. We study attitudes of translators post-editing for the first time and relate them to their productivity rates. We also compare the results with a survey answered by professional post-editors assessing their perception of the task in the current marketplace.

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