Influence of post-editing of machine translation on the quality of translated texts in the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission
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Post-editing, European Commission, DGT, Quality, CorpusAbstract
The present article aims at presenting the results of the first pilot project we carried out in the framework of our Ph. D. research. In concrete terms, we will explain our provisional findings related to the study of the 51 first texts of a corpus constituted by texts translated from English into French in the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT). In these texts, we analysed segments which were post-edited by the volunteer translators taking part in our project. We studied the modifications introduced in the post-edited segments by French units’ revisers throughout the revision process. All modifications introduced by revisers in the post-edited segments were attributed a penalty score thanks to an evaluation tool issued by Toudic et al. (2014), so that we could compute an average penalty score for each text and translator. We also grouped all modifications by revisers in post-edited segments under several categories that we will briefly describe. Finally, we will draw provisional conclusions related to the influence of Machine Translation post-editing on the quality of the final texts provided by the translators participating in our project.
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