Translation Quality Assessment : From Principles to Practice /: From Principles to Practice. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Joss Moorkens, Sheila Castilho, Federico Gaspari, Stephen Doherty, editors.
• Editors: Moorkens, Joss
• Other Names: Castilho, Sheila; Gaspari, Frico; Doherty, Stephen
• Contents: Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Introduction; References; Part I Scenarios for Translation Quality Assessment; Approaches to Human and Machine Translation Quality Assessment; 1 Background; 2 Notions of Translation Quality and Its Assessment; 2.1 TQA in Translation Studies; 2.2 TQA in the Translation Industry; 3 TQA Performed by Humans; 3.1 Adequacy and Fluency; 3.2 Readability and Comprehensibility; 3.3 Acceptability; 3.4 Ranking; 3.5 Usability and Performance; 3.6 Evaluators; 4 Automated TQA; 5 TQA in Integrated HT-MT Workflows; 6 Discussion 6.1 Lack of Standardisation in TQA Usage6.2 Inherent Inconsistency in TQA; 6.3 The Relationship Between Human and Automatic Measures; 6.4 Social Quality and Risk; 6.5 Education and Training; References; Translation Quality, Quality Management and Agency: Principles and Practice in the European Union Institutions; 1 Introduction; 2 Why Is Translation Quality Important for the EU?; 3 The EU Translation Context; 4 Consistency of Approach; 4.1 DGT's Quality Management Model; 4.2 Practical Quality Management at DGT Level 4.3 Practical Quality Management in DGT's Language Departments and Translation Units4.4 Consistency of Approach: Challenges; 5 Consistency of Quality; 5.1 DGT's Model for Translation Quality Assessment; 5.2 Consistency of Quality: Challenges; 6 The Impact and Implications of Translation Quality Management; References; Crowdsourcing and Translation Quality: Novel Approaches in the Language Industry and Translation Studies; 1 Introduction; 2 Defining Crowdsourcing; 3 The Many Approaches to Crowdsourcing Translation Quality: Industry and Translation Studies Perspectives 3.1 The Consolidation of Process or Workflow-Based Approaches to Guarantee Quality3.2 Consolidating the Fitness for Purpose; 3.3 Who Is Responsible for Quality?; 4 The Blending of MT and Professional Paradigms: Of Practices and Blended Approaches; 4.1 Quality Practices Inspired by Professional Contexts; 4.2 Approaches and Practices Inspired in MT and Language Automation; 5 Conclusions; References; On Education and Training in Translation Quality Assessment; 1 Introduction and Background; 2 Translation Technology Education and Training; 3 TQA Models for Education and Training 4 The Next Steps for TQA in Education and TrainingReferences; Part II Developing Applications of Translation Quality Assessment; Metrics for Translation Quality Assessment: A Case for Standardising Error Typologies; 1 Introduction; 2 Historical Background; 2.1 Early Efforts Toward Systematic Quality Evaluation; 2.2 The Beginnings of Standardisation; 3 Overview of the Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM); 3.1 MQM Harmonised Existing Approaches; 3.2 Overall Structure of MQM; 3.2.1 Hierarchy; 3.2.2 Dimensions; 3.2.3 Specifications; 3.2.4 Severities and Weights; 3.2.5 Scoring
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 418/.02; Computer science; Translating and interpreting -- Evaluation; Machine translating -- Evaluation; FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Multi-Language Phrasebooks; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Readers; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Spelling; Translating and interpreting -- Evaluation; Computer Science; Language Translation and Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines -- Linguistics -- General; Computational linguistics; Natural language processing (Computer science); Computational linguistics; Computers -- Speech & Audio Processing; Natural language & machine translation; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319912417; 3319912410; 3319912402; 9783319912400
• Related ISBNs: 9783319912400; 3319912402
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 18, 2018).
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