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META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092188ar

Michael Oakes, Meng Ji

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The Multilingual Corpus of Survey Questionnaires: A tool for refining survey translation 调查问卷的多语言语料库:一个完善调查问卷翻译的工具

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META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092191ar

Diana Zavala-Rojas, Danielly Sorato, L. Hareide, K. Hofland

{"title":"The Multilingual Corpus of Survey Questionnaires: A tool for refining survey translation","authors":"Diana Zavala-Rojas, Danielly Sorato, L. Hareide, K. Hofland","doi":"10.7202/1092191ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1092191ar","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes the design and compilation of the Multilingual Corpus of Survey Questionnaires (MCSQ), the first publicly available corpus of international survey questionnaires. Version 3.0 (Rosalind Franklin) is compiled from questionnaires from the European Social Survey, the European Values Study, the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, and the Wage Indicator Survey in the (British) English source language and their translations into eight languages (Catalan, Czech, French, German, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish and Russian). Documents in the corpus were translated with the objective of maximising data comparability across cultures. After contextualising aims and procedures in survey translation, this article presents examples of two types of problematic translation outcomes in survey questionnaires: The first type relates to the choice of idiomatic terms or fixed expressions in the source text. The second type relates to cases where the semantic variation of translation choices exceeds the scope allowed to maintain the psychometric properties across languages. With these examples, we aim to demonstrate how corpus linguistics can be used to analyse past translation outcomes and to improve the methodology for translating questionnaires.","PeriodicalId":46977,"journal":{"name":"META","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74431011","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}

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In Memoriam – André Clas

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META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092186ar

G. Bastin

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La traduction automatique des textes faciles à lire et à comprendre (FALC) : une étude comparative 易于阅读和理解文本的机器翻译:一项比较研究

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META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092189ar

Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez, Abigail Kaplan, Pierre Bouillon, Cornelia Griebel, Razieh Azari

{"title":"La traduction automatique des textes faciles à lire et à comprendre (FALC) : une étude comparative","authors":"Silvia Rodríguez Vázquez, Abigail Kaplan, Pierre Bouillon, Cornelia Griebel, Razieh Azari","doi":"10.7202/1092189ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1092189ar","url":null,"abstract":"Au cours de la dernière décennie, les langages contrôlés (LC) ont toujours été l’objet d’une attention accrue en traduction automatique (TA). La majorité des études ont porté sur l’impact des LC sur la qualité du produit final de la TA, mais très peu d’entre elles se sont intéressées à l’impact de la TA sur l’accessibilité des textes cibles pour les personnes à besoins particuliers. Cet article vise à combler cette lacune. Il cherche à déterminer, par le biais d’une étude linguistique comparative, si les systèmes de TA génériques constituent une option viable pour produire, à partir de textes simplifiés sources, des textes cibles faciles à lire et à comprendre (FALC). Nous avons testé trois outils génériques de TA (DeepL, Google Translate et Yandex) avec des textes FALC de trois domaines différents, dans quatre paires de langues. Les résultats montrent que DeepL est l’outil le plus performant et que l’espagnol et les textes administratifs restent ceux qui occasionnent le plus de problèmes pour la TA. En ce qui concerne l’évaluation de l’accessibilité linguistique, les problèmes aux niveaux lexical et stylistique sont les plus nombreux. Même si la TA ne produit pas encore des textes FALC acceptables, notre étude en souligne le potentiel et met l’accent sur la difficulté de créer du contenu multilingue accessible pour tous.","PeriodicalId":46977,"journal":{"name":"META","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76565149","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}

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La traductologie de corpus et la traduction journalistique historique1 语料库翻译学与历史新闻翻译

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META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092195ar

Mairi McLaughlin

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Revisiting simplification in corpus-based translation studies: Insights from readability research 重新审视基于语料库的翻译研究中的简化:来自可读性研究的启示

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META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092190ar

Thomas François, M. Lefer

{"title":"Revisiting simplification in corpus-based translation studies: Insights from readability research","authors":"Thomas François, M. Lefer","doi":"10.7202/1092190ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1092190ar","url":null,"abstract":"Ever since the publication of Laviosa’s (1998a; 1998b) pioneering work, the study of lexico-syntactic simplification has held centre stage in corpus translation research concerned with the typical features of translated texts. The simplification hypothesis states that translated texts are simpler than non-translated texts. The convergence hypothesis, also discussed by Laviosa (1998a; 1998b), but less so in follow-up studies, is that translated texts are more homogeneous than original texts, that is they display less variance. To date, simplification has mostly been operationalised in CBTS as type-token ratio, lexical density, core vocabulary coverage, list head coverage and average sentence length. Relying on these parameters, previous research has produced mixed results, with simplification varying across translation modalities, language pairs and registers. The present article sets out to revisit the simplification and convergence hypotheses through the lens of NLP-informed readability research. In particular, we rely on a larger set of simplification indicators and make use of multivariate statistical techniques. We present a simplification study of Europarl corpus data in French translated from English and in non-translated French. The results show that translated French is simpler than original French, lexically and syntactically. We also find evidence of convergence that shows that translators smooth out cross-speaker lexical heterogeneity in translated parliamentary proceedings.","PeriodicalId":46977,"journal":{"name":"META","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80309832","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}

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The function of recurrent word-combinations in English translations from three different languages 三种语言英译中重复词组合的功能

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META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092194ar

S. O. Ebeling

{"title":"The function of recurrent word-combinations in English translations from three different languages","authors":"S. O. Ebeling","doi":"10.7202/1092194ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1092194ar","url":null,"abstract":"This article compares phraseological tendencies in translated vs. non-translated English through functionally classified 3-word sequences. The study builds on previous research that compared 3-grams in fiction texts originally written in English with fiction texts translated from Norwegian. The current investigation adds English translations from two additional languages – German and Swedish – with the aim of establishing to what extent the tendencies noted for English translations from Norwegian extend to English translations from other languages. Thus the study contributes to the discussion of translation universals and translation as a third code. At the level of 3-gram functions, it has been uncovered that English originals and translations share similar functional characteristics in eight of the fourteen categories identified. Of the remaining six, four show statistically significant differences between originals and translations, regardless of source language. Based on a more qualitative study of four specific 3-grams from two of these categories, it is concluded, in line with the previous studies, that the most likely explanations are source language(s) shining through and the (potentially universal) tendency for translators to use a smaller and more fixed set of expressions in their translations.","PeriodicalId":46977,"journal":{"name":"META","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79002388","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}

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Pour une traductologie de corpus exploratoire : méthodologie d’analyse d’un corpus de rapports du GIEC et de leurs traductions 探索性语料库翻译学:分析ipcc报告语料库及其翻译的方法

3区文学

META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092193ar

A. Talbot, Camille Biros, Caroline Rossi

{"title":"Pour une traductologie de corpus exploratoire : méthodologie d’analyse d’un corpus de rapports du GIEC et de leurs traductions","authors":"A. Talbot, Camille Biros, Caroline Rossi","doi":"10.7202/1092193ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1092193ar","url":null,"abstract":"L’articulation entre la théorie et la pratique a toujours été problématique en traductologie. Or, dès le départ, une des promesses de la traductologie de corpus a été de proposer une méthode pour articuler fermement la théorie à la pratique. Dès le départ aussi, la traductologie de corpus a ranimé l’ambition théorique de mettre au jour des lois et des universaux. Le poids de la statistique en traductologie de corpus semble ainsi l’avoir en partie détournée de son inspiration empirique et de la promesse d’une articulation entre théorie et pratique. À rebours de cette tendance, nous présentons ici les résultats d’une étude qui s’inscrit dans le champ d’une « traductologie critique fondée sur corpus » et permet de renouer avec l’une des promesses initiales de la traductologie de corpus, pour mettre en valeur certains problèmes spécifiques à une situation et à un contexte de traduction donnés. À partir d’une analyse statistique exploratoire dans le logiciel R des synthèses des rapports du GIEC et de leurs traductions en français et en espagnol, sur la période allant de 1990 à 2014, nous montrons qu’une traductologie de corpus exploratoire et critique apporte un éclairage sur le travail empirique des traducteurs institutionnels, notamment par l’analyse des choix terminologiques et de reformulation.","PeriodicalId":46977,"journal":{"name":"META","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90072368","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}

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Éditorial

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META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092187ar

Georges L. Bastin

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Quantitative questions on big data in translation studies 翻译研究中的大数据定量问题

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META Pub Date : 2022-09-07 DOI: 10.7202/1092197ar

C. Mellinger

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