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Post-editing Guidelines for Korean-English Machine Translation of Informative Texts

  • The Journal of Translation Studies
  • Abbr : JTS
  • 2021, 22(1), pp.109-137
  • DOI : 10.15749/jts.2021.22.1.005
  • Publisher : The Korean Association for Translation Studies
  • Research Area : Humanities > Interpretation and Translation Studies
  • Received : February 7, 2021
  • Accepted : March 4, 2021
  • Published : March 31, 2021

Park, Kunyoung 1

1경희사이버대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study aims to suggest basic post-editing guidelines for Korean-English machine translation of informative texts. After constructing a parallel corpus composed of sentences extracted from an actual MTPE project, a qualitative analysis was conducted to find out which items were post-edited and how they were revised while Korean source texts went through machine translation, post-editing by translators, and revision by editors. The study categorized post-edited items into seven broad categories of format, typo, lexis, grammar, structure, addition, and ommission, classified them into thirty-five sub-categories, and counted the number of items under each sub-category. The result shows that the post-edited items vary from typos and grammatical errors to structural changes and omission of elements. The study also found that post-editors in the project, both translators and editors, post-edited not only errors but also non-errors. Lastly, this study suggests post-editing guidelines based on its findings, which can serve as guidelines for actual MTPE projects to improve post-edited outputs as well as a practical guide for those who want to learn post-editing in action.

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