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title = "Comparison of post-editing productivity between professional translators and lay users",
author = "Aranberri, Nora and
Labaka, Gorka and
Diaz de Ilarraza, Arantza and
Sarasola, Kepa",
editor = "O'Brien, Sharon and
Simard, Michel and
Specia, Lucia",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas",
month = oct # " 22-26",
year = "2014",
address = "Vancouver, Canada",
publisher = "Association for Machine Translation in the Americas",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2014.amta-wptp.2",
pages = "20--33",
abstract = "This work compares the post-editing productivity of professional translators and lay users. We integrate an English to Basque MT system within Bologna Translation Service, an end-to-end translation management platform, and perform a producitivity experiment in a real working environment. Six translators and six lay users translate or post-edit two texts from English into Basque. Results suggest that overall, post-editing increases translation throughput for both translators and users, although the latter seem to benefit more from the MT output. We observe that translators and users perceive MT differently. Additionally, a preliminary analysis seems to suggest that familiarity with the domain, source text complexity and MT quality might affect potential productivity gain.",
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%T Comparison of post-editing productivity between professional translators and lay users
%A Aranberri, Nora
%A Labaka, Gorka
%A Diaz de Ilarraza, Arantza
%A Sarasola, Kepa
%Y O’Brien, Sharon
%Y Simard, Michel
%Y Specia, Lucia
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Markdown (Informal)
[Comparison of post-editing productivity between professional translators and lay users](https://aclanthology.org/2014.amta-wptp.2) (Aranberri et al., AMTA 2014)
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