Perspectives on Translation Quality

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2012

Perspectives on Translation Quality

Edited by: Ilse Depraetere

Volume 9 in the series Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110259889

Overview
Contents

About this book

The volume is a collection of papers that deal with the issue of translation quality from a number of perspectives. It addresses the quality of human translation and machine translation, of pragmatic and literary translation, of translations done by students and by professional translators. Quality is not merely looked at from a linguistic point of view, but the wider context of QA in the translation workflow also gets ample attention.

The authors take an inductive approach: the papers are based on the analysis of translation data and/or on hands-on experience. The book provides a bird's eye view of the crucial quality issues, the close collaboration between academics and industry professionals safeguarding attention for quality in the 'real world'. For this reason, the methodological stance is likely to inspire the applied researcher. The analyses and descriptions also include best practices for translation trainers, professional translators and project managers.

Author / Editor information

Ilse Depraetere, Université de Lille III, Villeneuve d'Asq, France.

Topics

Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	VII
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	IX
Introduction Ilse Depraetere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I. Translation quality in the translation training context
A global rating scale for the summative assessment of pragmatic translation at Master’s level: an attempt to combine academic and professional criteria Anne Delizée Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Comparing formal translation evaluation and meaning-oriented translation evaluation: or how QA tools can(not) help Ilse Depraetere and Thomas Vackier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Number and gender agreement errors in student translations from Spanish into French Carmen Núñez–Lagos and Nathalie Moulard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
A Lexicogrammar approach to checking quality: looking at one or two cases of comparative translation Christopher Gledhill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Part II. The evaluation of machine translation
A contrastive analysis of MT evaluation techniques Ilse Depraetere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
MT evaluation based on post-editing: a proposal Nathalie De Sutter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
Part III. Quality Assurance in the translation workflow
Quality Assurance in the translation workflow – A professional’s testimony Nancy Matis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
A contrastive analysis of five automated QA tools (QA Distiller 6.5.8, Xbench 2.8, ErrorSpy 5.0, SDLTrados 2007 QA Checker 2.0 and SDLX 2007 SP2 QA Check) Antonia Debove, Sabrina Furlan and Ilse Depraetere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Management of translation memory quality in the Spanish Department of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission José Luis Vega Expósito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	193
Part IV. Domain-specific quality: legal translation and literary translation
Quality issues in the field of legal translation Patricia Vanden Bulcke and Armand Héroguel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
The problem of self-assessment in literary translation Olivier Vanwersch-Cot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	249
About the authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Translation Trainers, Translation Departments at Universities, Translation Professionals (Translators, Project Managers)
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 273
Keywords: Applied Linguistics; Lanuage Teaching; Translation Studies

eBook

Published: November 30, 2011
ISBN: 9783110259889

Hardcover

Published: November 17, 2011
ISBN: 9783110259841