Perspectives on Translation Quality /

Perspectives on Translation Quality / / ed. by Ilse Depraetere.

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The volume is a collection of papers that deal with the issue of translation quality from a number of perspectives. It addresses the quality of human translation and machine translation, of pragmatic and literary translation, of translations done by students and by professional translators. Quality...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Bulcke, Patricia Vanden,
De Sutter, Nathalie,
Debove, Antonia,
Delizée, Anne,
Depraetere, Ilse,
Expósito, José Luis Vega,
Furlan, Sabrina,
Gledhill, Christopher,
Héroguel, Armand,
Matis, Nancy,
Moulard, Nathalie,
Núñez–Lagos, Carmen,
Vackier, Thomas,
Vanwersch-Cot, Olivier,
HerausgeberIn:
Depraetere, Ilse,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©2012
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:Text, Translation, Computational Processing [TTCP] , 9
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Physical Description:1 online resource (273 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Table of contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Translation quality in the translation training context
  • A global rating scale for the summative assessment of pragmatic translation at Master’s level: an attempt to combine academic and professional criteria
  • Comparing formal translation evaluation and meaning-oriented translation evaluation: or how QA tools can(not) help
  • Number and gender agreement errors in student translations from Spanish into French
  • A Lexicogrammar approach to checking quality: looking at one or two cases of comparative translation
  • Part II. The evaluation of machine translation
  • A contrastive analysis of MT evaluation techniques
  • MT evaluation based on post-editing: a proposal
  • Part III. Quality Assurance in the translation workflow
  • Quality Assurance in the translation workflow – A professional’s testimony
  • A contrastive analysis of five automated QA tools (QA Distiller 6.5.8, Xbench 2.8, ErrorSpy 5.0, SDLTrados 2007 QA Checker 2.0 and SDLX 2007 SP2 QA Check)
  • Management of translation memory quality in the Spanish Department of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission
  • Part IV. Domain-specific quality: legal translation and literary translation
  • Quality issues in the field of legal translation
  • The problem of self-assessment in literary translation
  • About the authors
  • Subject index

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