Translating by post-editing: Is it the way forward?

Machine Translation

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 217-237

  Garcia, Ignacio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Google Translator Toolkit; Machine translation; Non professional translation; Post editing; Translation memory; Translation training

Indexed keywords

CONTROL GROUPS; EXPERIMENTAL GROUPS; MACHINE TRANSLATION; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; POST-EDITING; SOURCE TEXT; TRANSLATION MEMORIES; TRANSLATION MEMORY; TRANSLATOR TOOLKIT;

INFORMATION THEORY;

TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

EID: 84855705714     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-011-9115-8     Document Type: Article

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