An experimental use of the ‘default translation’ concept to
compare output of professional translators, translation
trainees and neural machine translation

k 2022

An experimental use of the ‘default translation’ concept to compare output of professional translators, translation trainees and neural machine translation

KAMENICKÁ, Renata

Základní údaje

Originální název

An experimental use of the ‘default translation’ concept to compare output of professional translators, translation trainees and neural machine translation

Název česky

Experimentálníb využití konceptu 'defaultního překladu' k proovnání výkonu profesionálních překladatelů, studentů překladu a NMT

Autoři

KAMENICKÁ, Renata

Vydání

Translation in Transition 6, Praha, 22.-23. září 2022, Charles University, 2022

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Prezentace na konferencích

Obor

60201 General language studies

Stát vydavatele

Česká republika

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova česky

defaultní překlad; neurální strojový překlad; lidský překlad; kognitivní aspekty

Klíčová slova anglicky

default translation; neural machine translation; human translation; cognitive aspects

Štítky

cognitive aspects, default translation, human translation, machine translation

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 9. 2. 2023 11:00, Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The study is based on an experimental extension/application of the concept of ‘default translation’ proposed by Halverson (2015, 2019) as a part of the non-computational approach to study cognition in translation and interpreting, in order to study and compare output of professional translators, translation trainees and neural machine translation on the English-Czech language interface. In full recognition of Halverson’s proposal of ‘default translation’ as a construct grounded in understanding cognition – including cognition in translation – as embodied, embedded, enacted, extended and affective (4EA) and hence the need for re-focusing attention from formerly prioritized areas of predicted difficulty and conscious deliberation (problem-solving in translation) to translation as an ‘uninterrupted’ and ‘unconstrained’ mode of production, also backed by a considerable body of translation process research, this study adopts an experimental approach to the concept. It attempts to gauge – both theoretically and practically – the possibilities and limitations of ‘transplanting’ default translation beyond the paradigm based on using eye-tracking and keystroke logging methodologies, and identifying default translation phases in translation professionals instead through sight translation tasks. Secondly, translation output and its quality in default translation tasks will be compared for professional translators, translation trainees and several neural machine translation systems (where success at default translation might be considered a base-line level of success). Attention is given to a post-hoc description of linguistic properties of stretches of texts accommodating default translation between English and Czech as less formally similar languages. Degrees of general and syntactic literalness and acceptability of the translational outputs in the three translating agents are compared, with a view to conceptualizing differences in the nature and quality of output of human and machine translation in this base-line difficulty of translation.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1479/2021, interní kód MU

Název: Paradigms, strategies and developments - English linguistics and translation II

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Paradigms, strategies and developments - English linguistics and translation II

Citovat

KAMENICKÁ, Renata. An experimental use of the ‘default translation’ concept to compare output of professional translators, translation trainees and neural machine translation. In Translation in Transition 6, Praha, 22.-23. září 2022, Charles University. 2022.

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KAMENICKÁ, Renata. An experimental use of the ‘default translation’ concept to compare output of professional translators, translation trainees and neural machine translation. In \textit{Translation in Transition 6, Praha, 22.-23. září 2022, Charles University}. 2022.

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