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Pauses as indicators of cognitive effort in post-editing machine translation output

O'Brien, Sharon orcid logoORCID: 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.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
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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