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A corpus-based search for machine translationese in terms of discourse coherence 基于语料库的机器翻译语篇连贯搜索

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-11-07 DOI: 10.1556/084.2022.00182

Yue Jiang, Jiang Niu

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The Babel of Tongues: Englischsprachige Freiwillige und ihr Beitrag zur Kommunikation im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg nicolas正准备欢迎你

IF 0.7 3区文学

Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-11-07 DOI: 10.1556/084.2022.00365

Mary Snell-Hornby

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Extending the Scope of Corpus-Based Translation Studies 扩展基于语料库的翻译研究范围

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-11-07 DOI: 10.5040/9781350143289

A. Chesterman

引用次数: 2

How does interpreting performance correlate with note-taking process, note-taking product and note-reading process? An eye-tracking and pen-recording study 口译绩效与记笔记过程、记笔记产品和读笔记过程的关系如何?一项眼球追踪和笔记录研究

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-11-07 DOI: 10.1556/084.2022.00281

Huolingxiao Kuang, Binghan Zheng

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引用次数: 2

Homogenized literary co-translation: A Hero Born and A Bond Undone 同质化文学联译:英雄的诞生与纽带的解除

IF 0.7 3区文学

Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.1556/084.2022.00054

Hong Diao

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引用次数: 1

Using computerised comparative judgement to assess translation 用计算机比较判断评价翻译

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.1556/084.2022.00001

Chao Han, Bei Hu, Qin Fan, Jing Duan, Xi Li

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The interaction effect between source text complexity and machine translation quality on the task difficulty of NMT post-editing from English to Chinese: A multi-method study 源文本复杂性与机器翻译质量对NMT英汉后编辑任务难度的交互作用：多方法研究

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.1556/084.2022.00120

Yanfang Jia, Binghan Zheng

{"title":"The interaction effect between source text complexity and machine translation quality on the task difficulty of NMT post-editing from English to Chinese: A multi-method study","authors":"Yanfang Jia, Binghan Zheng","doi":"10.1556/084.2022.00120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/084.2022.00120","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This study explores the interaction effect between source text (ST) complexity and machine translation (MT) quality on the task difficulty of neural machine translation (NMT) post-editing from English to Chinese. When investigating human effort exerted in post-editing, existing studies have seldom taken both ST complexity and MT quality levels into account, and have mainly focused on MT systems used before the emergence of NMT. Drawing on process and product data of post-editing from 60 trainee translators, this study adopted a multi-method approach to measure post-editing task difficulty, including eye-tracking, keystroke logging, quality evaluation, subjective rating, and retrospective written protocols. The results show that: 1) ST complexity and MT quality present a significant interaction effect on task difficulty of NMT post-editing; 2) ST complexity level has a positive impact on post-editing low-quality NMT (i.e., post-editing task becomes less difficult when ST complexity decreases); while for post-editing high-quality NMT, it has a positive impact only on the subjective ratings received from participants; and 3) NMT quality has a negative impact on its post-editing task difficulty (i.e., the post-editing task becomes less difficult when MT quality goes higher), and this impact becomes stronger when ST complexity increases. This paper concludes that both ST complexity and MT quality should be considered when testing post-editing difficulty, designing tasks for post-editor training, and setting fair post-editing pricing schemes.","PeriodicalId":44202,"journal":{"name":"Across Languages and Cultures","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.7,"publicationDate":"2022-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43287675","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 2

Prefabricated orality in theatre translations: An overview based on an English–Spanish parallel corpus 戏剧翻译中的预制口语：基于英语-西班牙语平行语料库的综述

IF 0.7 3区文学

Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.1556/084.2022.00090

Olaia Andaluz-Pinedo

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Systemic Functional Linguistics and Translation Studies 系统功能语言学与翻译研究

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.5040/9781350091894

J. Nagy

引用次数: 8

Children and teenagers acting as language brokers: The perception of teachers at secondary schools 充当语言掮客的儿童和青少年:中学教师的看法

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Across Languages and Cultures Pub Date : 2022-05-09 DOI: 10.1556/084.2022.00134

Mariana Orozco Jutorán, Mireia Vargas-Urpí

引用次数: 0