Analysing Post-Editing Performance: Correlations with Years of Translation Experience
@inproceedings{Almeida2010AnalysingPP, title={Analysing Post-Editing Performance: Correlations with Years of Translation Experience}, author={Giselle de Almeida and Sharon O’Brien}, booktitle={European Association for Machine Translation Conferences/Workshops}, year={2010} }
Post-editing (PE) is still a new activity for many translators. The lack of training, clear and consistent guidelines and international standards may cause difficulties in the transition from translation to PE. Aiming to gain a better understanding of these difficulties and using data gathered from a pilot project, this paper explores possible correlations between PE performance and previous translation experience. We test a combination of the LISA QA Model and the GALE postediting guidelines…
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