Ana Guerberof-Arenas
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ana Guerberof-Arenas is involved.
2025 “Google Translate is our best friend here”: A vignette-based interview study on machine translation use for health communication Translation Spaces 14:2, pp. 253–276 | Article
This article presents the findings of an in-depth, participant-oriented study using vignette-based interviews to explore migrants’ use of machine translation (MT) in healthcare settings in the Netherlands. Interviewees engaged with a narrative vignette depicting a recently arrived migrant… read more
2024 To be or not to be: A translation reception study of a literary text translated into Dutch and Catalan using machine translation Target 36:2, pp. 215–244 | Article
This article presents the results of a study focusing on the reception of a fictional story by Kurt Vonnegut translated from English into Catalan and Dutch in three conditions: machine translated, post-edited, and human translated. Participants (n = 223) rated the three conditions using three… read more
2022 Creativity in translation: Machine translation as a constraint for literary texts Translation Spaces 11:2, pp. 184–212 | Article
This article presents the results of a study involving the translation of a short story by Kurt Vonnegut from English to Catalan and Dutch using three modalities: machine-translation (MT), post-editing (PE) and translation without aid (HT). Our aim is to explore creativity, understood to involve… read more
2020 The impact of post-editing and machine translation on creativity and reading experience Translation Spaces 9:2, pp. 255–282 | Article
This article presents the results of a study involving the translation of a fictional story from English into Catalan in three modalities: machine-translated (MT), post-edited (MTPE) and translated without aid (HT). Each translation was analysed to evaluate its creativity. Subsequently, a cohort… read more
Capturing creativity in literary translation using creative process report diaries Translation Spaces: Online-First Articles | Article
It is widely accepted that translators are creative (Guerberof-Arenas and Toral 2022; Perteghella and Loffredo 2006), but there are few studies that investigate translators’ creative processes. Against this background, we present quantitative results from a novel study, detailing the creative… read more