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Suitability of Neural Machine Translation for Producing Linguistically Accessible Text: Exploring the Effects of Pre-Editing on Easy-to-Read Administrative Documents

ContributorsKaplan, Abigail
Master program titleMaîtrise universitaire en traduction et communication spécialisée multilingue
Defense date2021
Abstract

Governments have the potential to improve the civic inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities living in multilingual societies by providing administrative documents in an Easy-to-Read format and in the preferred language of the target audience. This study aims to address the obstacles keeping Swiss and French administrations from successful accessible communication with their English-speaking citizens with disabilities. It assesses the suitability of a free and public neural machine translation system, DeepL, for generating accessible English from Easy-to-Read French source texts. With the goal of increasing the linguistic accessibility of the texts produced by the system, it proposes the introduction of a pre-editing step. A four-part study investigated the issue from three different angles: translation quality, accessibility, and readability. Findings show that pre-editing improves two of the three factors of linguistic accessibility examined, making this type of tool more suitable for producing Easy-to-Read English translations.

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Keywords
  • Traduction automatique neuronale
  • Langues contrôlées
  • Facile à lire et à comprendre
  • Accessibilité
  • Neural machine translation
  • Controlled language
  • Easy-to-Read
  • Accessibility
  • Barrier-free communication
Citation (ISO format)
KAPLAN, Abigail. Suitability of Neural Machine Translation for Producing Linguistically Accessible Text: Exploring the Effects of Pre-Editing on Easy-to-Read Administrative Documents. 2021.
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