Measuring cognitive effort in post-editing: an eye-tracking study comparing professional and student translators

This eye-tracking study compares the post-editing cognitive effort of 25 professionals and 27 students when post-editing NMT and SMT from English to Spanish. Results show no significant differences in post-editing time or fixation duration between groups or MT systems, but reveal reduced fixation duration with NMT for both groups.

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Tradumàtica tecnologies de la traducció
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2024-12-31
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https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tradumatica.418
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Natural Language Processing Techniques
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Measuring cognitive effort in post-editing: an eye-tracking study comparing professional and student translators

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Measuring cognitive effort in post-editing: an eye-tracking study comparing professional and student translators

Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund, María Inmaculada Sánchez‐Vicente, Andrade López
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Abstract

This eye-tracking study compares the post-editing cognitive effort of 25 professionals and 27 students when post-editing NMT and SMT from English to Spanish. Results show no significant differences in post-editing time or fixation duration between groups or MT systems, but reveal reduced fixation duration with NMT for both groups.

Tradumàtica tecnologies de la traducció(22)
University of Copenhagen (DK), Deutsches Historisches Institut Rom (IT), Universidad de Murcia (ES)
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