Explorations in Empirical Translation Process Research

This book assembles fifteen original, interdisciplinary research chapters that explore methodological and conceptual considerations as well as user and usage studies to elucidate the relation between the translation product and translation/post-editing processes. It introduces numerous innovative empirical/data-driven measures as well as novel classification schemes and taxonomies to investigate and quantify the relation between translation quality and translation effort in from-scratch translation, machine translation post-editing and computer-assisted audiovisual translation.

The volume addresses questions in the translation of cognates, neologisms, metaphors, and idioms, as well as figurative and cultural specific expressions. It re-assesses the notion of translation universals and translation literality, elaborates on the definition of translation units and syntactic equivalence, and investigates the impact of translation ambiguity and translation entropy. The results and findings are interpreted in the context of psycho-linguistic models of bilingualism and re-frame empirical translation process research within the context of modern dynamic cognitive theories of the mind. The volume bridges the gap between translation process research and machine translation research. It appeals to students and researchers in the fields.

Auteur

Michael Carl is a Professor at Kent State University/USA and Director of the Center for Research and Innovation in Translation and Translation Technology (CRITT). He has published widely in the fields on machine translation, natural language processing and cognitive translation studies. His current research interest is related to the investigation of human translation processes and interactive machine translation.

Contenu
IntroductionPart 1Translation segmentation and translation difficulty 1Michael CarlMicro Units and the First Translational Response Universal 2Bram Vanroy, Orphée De Clercq, Arda Tezcan, Joke Daems and Lieve MackenMetrics of syntactic equivalence to assess translation difficulty 3Yuxiang WeiEntropy and eye movement: A micro analysis of information processing in activity units during the translation process 4Jinjin ChenTranslating Chinese Neologisms without Knowledge of Context: An Exploratory Analysis of an Eye-tracking and Key-logging Experiment 5Michael CarlTranslation Norms, Translation Behavior, and Continuous Vector Space Models (2)Part 2 Translation and entropy 6Michael CarlInformation and Entropy Measures of Rendered Literal Translation (15) 7Haruka Ogawa, Devin Gilbert and Samar Almazroei redBird: Rendering Entropy Data and source-text Background Information into a Rich Discourse on Translation (11) 8Isabel Lacruz, Haruka Ogawa, Rika Yoshida, Masaru Yamada and Daniel Ruiz Martinez: Using a product metric to identify differential cognitive effort in translation from Japanese to English and Spanish (7) 9Arndt Heilmann and Carme Bofí Analysing the effects of lexical cognates on translation properties: a multi-variate product and process based approach (14)Part 3Translation Technology, Quality and Effort 10Félix Do Carmo Editing actions: a missing link between Translation Process Research and Machine Translation Research (9) 11Jie Huang and Michael Carl Word-level HTER edits as indicators of cognitive effort in post-editing (1) 12Cristina Cumbreño and Nora Aranberri:What do you say? Comparison of temporal, technical and cognitive dimension measurements for post-editing effort (8) 13Anke Tardel Measuring effort in subprocesses of subtitling: The case of post-editing via pivot language. (5) 14Lucas N Vieira, Xiaochun Zhang, Roy Youdale and Michael CarlTranslating science fiction in a CAT tool: post-editing effort and text segmentation (10) 15Michael Carl Ecological-enactive approach to translation (18)