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Maschinelle, posteditierte und menschliche Übersetzung publizistischer und populärwissenschaftlicher Texte aus dem Slowakischen ins Deutsche

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Lebende Sprachen
From the journal Lebende Sprachen Volume 68 Issue 2

Abstract

Machine translation from small into big languages, in our case a transfer from Slovak into German, has not yet undergone thorough research. Our goal is an analysis and comparison of machine translation (MT) and post-edited machine translation (PEMT) errors with human translation (HT) as well as detecting the efficiency rate of post-editing within that mentioned comparison. Hereby we apply a method of automatic and manual metrics by percentages and evaluation numbers. Results indicate that post-editing is more efficient which however does not mean that human translation has a lower quality. A higher degree of freedom of HT allows for more creative solutions contrasting with post-edited MT in the results.

Schlüsselwörter: deutsche Sprache; slowakische Sprache; maschinelle Übersetzung; publizistische Texte; Posteditieren

Danksagung

Die im vorliegenden Beitrag diskutierten Ergebnisse wurden im Rahmen eines Forschungsprojektes erarbeitet, das von der Agentur für die Förderung der Forschung und Entwicklung (Vertrag Nr. APVV-18–0473) gefördert wird.

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Published Online: 2023-09-04
Published in Print: 2023-11-24

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https://doi.org/10.1515/les-2022-1039

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Frontmatter
  3. Hektik pur: zu den unflektierten nachgestellten Adjektiven im Deutschen und zu deren Wiedergabe im Italienischen
  4. Cognitive and pragmatic features of Anglicisms in Kazakh media text
  5. The portrayal of women in Jordanian proverbial expressions: A thematic analysis
  6. Direktionalität im Konferenzdolmetschen: eine terminologische Vorbereitungsmethode für die Sprachrichtung A-B
  7. Las asimetrías entre los procesos penales español y alemán y cómo abordarlos mediante una traducción transparente basada en el derecho comparado
  8. La diversidad terminológica dentro del mismo ordenamiento jurídico como problema de traducción: el subdominio jurídico de las parejas de hecho en España
  9. Maschinelle, posteditierte und menschliche Übersetzung publizistischer und populärwissenschaftlicher Texte aus dem Slowakischen ins Deutsche
  10. Artificial intelligence literacy for the language industry – with particular emphasis on recent large language models such as GPT-4
  11. Rezensionen
  12. Cognola, Federica/Moroni, Manuela Caterina (2022): Le particelle modali del tedesco. Caratteristiche formali, proprietà pragmatiche ed equivalenti funzionali in italiano. Roma: Carocci, 240 S., ISBN 9788843094509.
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