Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Table of contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Translation quality in the translation training context
6. A global rating scale for the summative assessment of pragmatic translation at Master’s level: an attempt to combine academic and professional criteria 9
7. Comparing formal translation evaluation and meaning-oriented translation evaluation: or how QA tools can(not) help 25
8. Number and gender agreement errors in student translations from Spanish into French 51
9. A Lexicogrammar approach to checking quality: looking at one or two cases of comparative translation 71
10. Part II. The evaluation of machine translation
11. A contrastive analysis of MT evaluation techniques 101
12. MT evaluation based on post-editing: a proposal 125
13. Part III. Quality Assurance in the translation workflow
14. Quality Assurance in the translation workflow – A professional’s testimony 147
15. A contrastive analysis of five automated QA tools (QA Distiller 6.5.8, Xbench 2.8, ErrorSpy 5.0, SDLTrados 2007 QA Checker 2.0 and SDLX 2007 SP2 QA Check) 161
16. Management of translation memory quality in the Spanish Department of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission 193
17. Part IV. Domain-specific quality: legal translation and literary translation
18. Quality issues in the field of legal translation 211
19. The problem of self-assessment in literary translation 249
20. About the authors 265
21. Subject index 269