It has been claimed that human translators rely on some sort of literal translation
equivalences to produce translations and to check their validity. More effort would be …

The paper develops a definition of translation literality that is based on the syntactic and
semantic similarity of the source and the target texts. We provide theoretical and empirical …

This research focuses on the type and proportion of the revisions made by translators during
target text production. Eighteen professional translators used the keyboard logging software …

The definition and effect of translation literality (word-for-word translation, as opposed to
sense-for-sense translation) have been a topic in translation studies for very many years …

Despite the increased quality of Machine Translation output, human interaction will remain a
crucial activity to guarantee the quality of the final translation products. Human-computer …

It is common knowledge that translation is an ambiguous, 1-to-n mapping process, but to
date, our community has produced no empirical estimates of this ambiguity. We have …

While translation careers and the translation profession become more globalised and more
technological, we are still far from understanding how humans actually translate and how …

The paper presents an exploratory study of the translation processes for 12 student and 12
professional translators. We relate properties of the translators' process data (eye …

As machine translation technology improves comparisons to human performance are often
made in quite general and exaggerated terms. Thus, it is important to be able to account for …

Translation environments offer various translation aids to support professional translators.
However, translation aids typically provide only limited justification for the translation …