Human Issues in Translation Technology

ISBN-13: 9780367736484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 178 str.

Dorothy Kenny

Opis

This state-of-the-art volume looks at translation technologies from the point of view of the humans users – as trainee, professional or volunteer translators, or as end users of translations produced by machines. Covering technologies from machine translation to online collaborative platforms and practices from ‘traditional’ translation to crowd

Spis treści

Introduction

Dorothy Kenny

1 Love letters or hate mail? Translators' technology acceptance in the light of their emotional narratives

Kaisa Koskinen and Minna Ruokonen

2 Deconstructing translation crowdsourcing with the case of a Facebook initiative: A translation network of engineered autonomy and trust?

Minako O'Hagan

3 'I can't get no satisfaction!' Should we blame translation technologies or shifting business practices?

Matthieu LeBlanc

4 How do translators use web resources? Evidence from the performance of Chinese-English translators

Vincent X. Wang and Lily Lim

5 Translators' needs and preferences in the design of specialized termino-lexicographic tools

Alejandro García-Aragón and Clara Inés López-Rodríguez

6 Assessing user interface needs of post-editors of machine translation

Joss Moorkens and Sharon O'Brien

7 Issues in human and automatic translation quality assessment

Stephen Doherty

8 Can U read ths? The reception of txt language in subtitling

Alina Secară

 

O autorze

Dorothy Kenny is Associate Professor in the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University. She is the author of Lexis and Creativity in Translation (Routledge, 2001), and served on the Executive Council of the International Association for Translation and Intercultural Studies from 2004 to 2016.