@article{ART002878492},
author={Gwag, Soon-Lei},
title={A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982},
journal={The Journal of Translation Studies},
issn={1229-795X},
year={2022},
volume={23},
number={3},
pages={155-182},
doi={10.15749/jts.2022.23.3.006}
TY - JOUR
AU - Gwag, Soon-Lei
TI - A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982
JO - The Journal of Translation Studies
PY - 2022
VL - 23
IS - 3
PB - The Korean Association for Translation Studies
SP - 155
EP - 182
SN - 1229-795X
AB - This study aims to identify the availability and limitations of neural machine translation (NMT) through a comparative analysis of the Korean-Arabic human translation and NMT of a literary text. To this end, the NMT of Cho Nam-Joo’s novel Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 is analyzed compared to its human translation published in Arabic. Errors in the NMT output are classified into linguistic and cultural categories for quantitative analysis, and exemplary errors are qualitatively examined. According to the findings for the linguistic category, the meaning of words is almost accurately translated by NMT, but many errors involve polysemous words that must be translated according to their context. In particular, when negative words are included, the whole sentence is often translated into the opposite meaning. Many errors occur in the translation of pronouns as predicted. In the cultural category, abbreviations and food names are translated correctly in general, but the terms describing family relationships are translated into different meanings in many cases. Although this study uses limited data for analysis, it is meaningful in that it confirms the availability and limitations of Korean-Arabic NMT.
KW - Human Translation;Neural Machine Translation;Linguistic Category;Cultural Category;Literary Text;Korean-Arabic Translation
DO - 10.15749/jts.2022.23.3.006
ER -
Gwag, Soon-Lei. (2022). A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982. The Journal of Translation Studies, 23(3), 155-182.
Gwag, Soon-Lei. 2022, "A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982", The Journal of Translation Studies, vol.23, no.3 pp.155-182. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2022.23.3.006
Gwag, Soon-Lei "A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982" The Journal of Translation Studies 23.3 pp.155-182 (2022) : 155.
Gwag, Soon-Lei. A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982. 2022; 23(3), 155-182. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2022.23.3.006
Gwag, Soon-Lei. "A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982" The Journal of Translation Studies 23, no.3 (2022) : 155-182.doi: 10.15749/jts.2022.23.3.006
Gwag, Soon-Lei. A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982. The Journal of Translation Studies, 23(3), 155-182. doi: 10.15749/jts.2022.23.3.006
Gwag, Soon-Lei. A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982. The Journal of Translation Studies. 2022; 23(3) 155-182. doi: 10.15749/jts.2022.23.3.006
Gwag, Soon-Lei. A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982. 2022; 23(3), 155-182. Available from: doi:10.15749/jts.2022.23.3.006
Gwag, Soon-Lei. "A Study on the Errors of Korean-Arabic Machine Translation in Literary Text—Focusing on Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982" The Journal of Translation Studies 23, no.3 (2022) : 155-182.doi: 10.15749/jts.2022.23.3.006
