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Working with Pre-translated Texts: Preliminary Findings from a Survey on Post-editing and Revision Practices in Swiss Corporate In-house Language Services

ContributorsGirletti, Sabrina
Presented atGhent, Belgium, 1-3 June 2022
Publication date2022-06-01
Abstract

With the arrival of neural machine translation, the boundaries between revision and post-editing (PE) have started to blur (Koponen et al. 2020). To shed light on current professional practices and provide new pedagogical perspectives, we set up a survey-based study to investigate how PE and revision are carried out in professional settings. We received 86 responses from corporate translators working at 23 different corporate in-house language services in Switzerland. Although the differences between the two activities seem to be clear for in-house linguists, our findings show that they tend to use the same reading strategies when working with human-translated and machine-translated texts.

Keywords
  • Revision
  • Post-editing
  • PE
  • Reading strategies
  • Corporate in-house language service
  • Professional translators
  • Survey-based study
  • Workflow
  • Machine translation
  • In-house translators
Citation (ISO format)
GIRLETTI, Sabrina. Working with Pre-translated Texts: Preliminary Findings from a Survey on Post-editing and Revision Practices in Swiss Corporate In-house Language Services. In: Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. Ghent, Belgium. [s.l.] : [s.n.], 2022.
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Additional URL for this publicationhttps://aclanthology.org/2022.eamt-1.30/
ISBN9789464597622
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