Assessing the quality of post-edited wildlife documentaries. (2nd October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ortiz-Boix, Carla; Matamala, Anna
• Is Part Of: Perspectives. Volume 25:Number 4(2017)
• Page Start: 571
• Page End: 593
• Publication Date: 2017-10-02
• Subjects: Screen translation -- voice-over -- translation of documentaries -- machine translation -- post-editing -- quality assessment; Translating and interpreting -- Periodicals; 418.0205
• DOI: 10.1080/0907676X.2016.1245763
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0907-676X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This article presents the results of an experiment to assess the quality of post-edited wildlife documentary films to be voiced-over and off-screen dubbed, which was compared to the quality of human translation. The hypothesis of the article is that there are no significant differences between translated and post-edited texts in terms of quality. Twelve MA students translated and post-edited two excerpts of an English wildlife documentary into Spanish. Six professional translators then assessed both the translations and post-edited texts by: (1) grading the documents, (2) correcting them using a Multidimensional Quality Metrics-based error classification that takes into account documentary translation specificities, and (3) answering questionnaires on their impressions. The results confirm the hypothesis by indicating that the quality of post-edited and translated wildlife documentary films is significantly similar.