Abstract
The present study has surveyed post-editor trainees’ views and attitudes before and after the introduction of speech technology as a front end to a computer-aided translation workbench. The aim of the survey was (i) to identify attitudes and perceptions among post-editor trainees before performing a post-editing task using automatic speech recognition (ASR); and (ii) to assess the
degree to which post-editors’ attitudes and expectations to the use of speech technology changed after actually using it. The survey was based on two questionnaires: the first one administered before the participants performed
with the ASR system and the second one at the end of the session, once they have actually used ASR while post-editing machine translation outputs. Overall, the results suggest that the surveyed posteditor trainees tended to report a positive view of ASR in the context of post-editing and they would consider adopting ASR as an input method for future post-editing tasks.
degree to which post-editors’ attitudes and expectations to the use of speech technology changed after actually using it. The survey was based on two questionnaires: the first one administered before the participants performed
with the ASR system and the second one at the end of the session, once they have actually used ASR while post-editing machine translation outputs. Overall, the results suggest that the surveyed posteditor trainees tended to report a positive view of ASR in the context of post-editing and they would consider adopting ASR as an input method for future post-editing tasks.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the Workshop on Humans and Computer-assisted Translation (HaCaT) |
| Editors | Ulrich Germann, Michael Carl, Philipp Koehn, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Francisco Casacuberta, Robin Hill, Sharon O’Brien |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Place of Publication | Stroudsburg, PA |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Publication date | 2014 |
| Pages | 99-103 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781937284824 |
| Publication status | Published - 2014 |
| Event | The EACL 2014 Workshop on Humans and Computer-assisted Translation. HaCat 2014: Human in the Loop - Gothenburg, Sweden Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 26 Apr 2014 https://sites.google.com/site/hacat2014/about |
Workshop
| Workshop | The EACL 2014 Workshop on Humans and Computer-assisted Translation. HaCat 2014 |
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| Country/Territory | Sweden |
| City | Gothenburg |
| Period | 26/04/2014 → 26/04/2014 |
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