Michael Carl

Srinivas Bangalore

Moritz Schaeffer

This volume provides a comprehensive introduction to the Translation Process Research Database (TPR-DB), which was compiled by the Centre for Research and Innovation in Translation and Technologies (CRITT). The TPR-DB is a unique resource featuring more than 500 hours of recorded translation process data, augmented with over 200 different rich annotations. Twelve chapters describe the diverse research directions this data can support, including the computational, statistical and psycholinguistic modeling of human translation processes. In the first chapters of this book, the reader is introduced to the CRITT TPR-DB. This is followed by two main parts, the first of which focuses on usability issues and details of implementing interactive machine translation. It also discusses the use of external resources and translator-information interaction. The second part addresses the cognitive and statistical modeling of human translation processes, including co-activation at the lexical, syntactic and discourse levels, translation literality, and various annotation schemata for the data.

Exploring the CRITT TPR-DB

New Directions in Empirical Translation Process Research

Laura Winther Balling

Post-editing is possibly the oldest form of human-machine cooperation for translation. It has been a common practice for just about as long as operational machine translation systems have existed. Recently, however, there has been a surge of interest in post-editing among the wider user community, partly due to the increasing quality of machine translation output, but also to the availability of free, reliable software for both machine translation and post-editing. As a result, the practices and processes of the translation industry are changing in fundamental ways. This volume is a compilation of work by researchers, developers and practitioners of post-editing, presented at two recent events on post-editing: The first Workshop on Post-editing Technology and Practice, held in conjunction with the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, held in San Diego, in 2012; and the International Workshop on Expertise in Translation and Post-editing Research and Application, held at the Copenhagen Business School, in 2012.

Processes and Applications

Post-editing of Machine Translation

Florina Speth

Zehn Kinder, im Jahr 2015 geboren, beschreiten ihre möglichen Lebenswelten der kommenden 100 Jahre und werfen die großen Zukunftsfragen unserer Gesellschaft auf: Wie werden wir leben? Wie wollen wir leben? Zwanzig Zukunftsgeschichten begleiten zehn Kinder zu zwei Zeitpunkten ihres Lebens auf sehr nahbare Art und Weise in möglichen Welten ihres Lebens. Sie geben einen ersten Einblick in die laufende Forschung der Langzeitstudie «Die Zukunft deiner Kinder». Dieses international einzigartige Projekt, initiiert durch Europas größtes unabhängiges Zukunftsforschungsinstitut 2b AHEAD ThinkTank, erschließt die Dimension eines Jahrhunderts und ist auf eine kontinuierliche Fortschreibung angelegt. Die Zukunftsgeschichten basieren auf wissenschaftlichem Vorgehen.

Michael Carl

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