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• Title:
  Machine translation as a resource for humanist-literary translation: can an ‘artificial’ tool transfer an essentially ‘human’ and ‘social’ text?
• Creator:
  Rivas Carmona , María del Mar
• Description:
  The usefulness of machine translators (MTs) is virtually indisputable. Although, until recently, they could be considered almost the ‘enemy’ of translators, the rise of technology in our profession has changed from a threat to an opportunity to broaden skills and take on new roles (Moorkens, 2018). MT has evolved since its inception and, in particular, Statistical MT (SMT) and Neural Network-based MT (NMT) systems have become very popular. One question that deserves particular attention is whether these automatic resources are just as effective for a humanistic-literary translation as they are for a specialised translation in the scientific-technical field. In this article, we have compared the degree of appropriateness of a corpus of EN>ES translations produced by around one hundred 4th year degree Translation and Interpreting students at the University of Córdoba. The analysis shows, as could be predicted, that, although it is always necessary to revise the automatic target text, in the case of humanistic-literary texts it is essential to use MT only as a basis for a ‘human’ translation. Furthermore, and very pertinently, the students’ translation results were better when the texts were related to their own lives or had social repercussions with which they could sympathise.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2024 María del Mar Rivas Carmona;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
• Date:
  2024.10.15
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy
• Language:
  French
• Source:
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Vol. 51 No. 3 (2024): Traducteur et ses rôles sociaux ; 7-20;
  Studia Romanica Posnaniensia; Tom 51 Nr 3 (2024): Traducteur et ses rôles sociaux ; 7-20;
  2084-4158;
  0137-2475
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/44617/36841
• Subject:
  Humanist-literary translation;
  machine translation;
  register;
  style;
  appropriateness;
  artificial language vs. human and social language
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/srp/article/view/44617
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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• Type:
  text