Article published in:
Community Interpreting, Translation, and TechnologyEdited by Nike K. Pokorn and Christopher D. Mellinger
[Translation and Interpreting Studies 13:3] 2018
► pp. 486–508
Moses, time, and crisis translation
Federico M. Federici | University College London
Khetam Al Sharou | University College London
Training translators to react to sudden emergencies is a challenge. This article presents the results of a training experiment
testing the speed of acquisition of the skills necessary to operate the open-source Moses statistical machine translation (SMT)
system. A task-based approach was used with trainee translators who had no experience working with MT technology. The experiment
is a feasibility study to ascertain whether training on Moses SMT could be considered for long-lasting crisis scenarios. The
article reports its findings in four sections. The first section discusses the research context in which ‘crisis translation’ is
defined; the second section illustrates the rationale of the experiment; the third section looks at the results of the training
experiment; and the fourth at the trainees’ perceptions of their learning processes. The conclusion reflects on the viability of
using Moses and on the next phases needed to refine the findings of this first experiment.
Article outline
- Crisis communication and the position of translation
- Moses SMT and training experiment
- Trainee translators in a task-based learning process
- Participants’ self-reflective approach
- Concluding remarks
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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Published online: 09 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00026.fed
https://doi.org/10.1075/tis.00026.fed
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