O'Brien, Sharon ORCID: 0000-0003-4864-5986 (2006) Pauses as indicators of cognitive effort in post-editing machine translation output. Across Languages and Cultures, 7 (1). pp. 1-21. ISSN 1585-1923
Abstract
In translation process and language production research, pauses are seen as indicators of cognitive processing. Investigating the correlations between source text machine translatability and post-editing effort involves an assessment of cognitive effort. Therefore, an analysis of pauses is essential. This paper presents data from a research project which includes an analysis of pauses in post-editing, triangulated with the Choice Network Analysis method and Translog. Results suggest that the pause-to-keyboarding ratio does not differ significantly for sentences deemed to be more suitable for machine translation than for those deemed to be less suitable. Also, results confirm the finding in research elsewhere that pause duration and frequency is subject to individual differences. Finally, we suggest that while pauses provide some indication of cognitive processing, supplementary methods are required to give a fuller picture.
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Item Type: | Article (Published) |
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Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Post-editing; machine translatability; pauses; cognitive processing; Choice Network Analysis; Translog |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating Humanities > Translating and interpreting |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies Research Initiatives and Centres > Centre for Translation and Textual Studies (CTTS) |
Publisher: | Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest |
Official URL: | http://dx.doi.ord/10.1556/ACROSS.7.2006.1 |
Copyright Information: | © 2006 Akadémiai Kiadó |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
ID Code: | 17156 |
Deposited On: | 11 Sep 2012 11:00 by Sharon O'brien . Last Modified 13 Oct 2022 13:25 |
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