Exploring ChatGPT's potential for augmenting post-editing in machine translation across multiple domains: challenges and opportunities

ChatGPT-4o showed competitive performance in English-to-Arabic post-editing, particularly in producing fluent, coherent, and stylistically consistent text. Its conversational design enables efficient and consistent editing across various domains. Nonetheless, the model faced challenges in handling grammatical and syntactic nuances, domain-specific idioms, and complex terminology, especially in medical and sports contexts. Overall, the study highlights the potential of ChatGPT-4o as a supportive tool in translation post-editing workflows, complementing human translators by enhancing productivity and maintaining acceptable quality standards.