Analyzing differences in alternative translations
| Thesis title in Czech: | Analýza rozdílů v alternativních překladech |
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| Thesis title in English: | Analyzing differences in alternative translations |
| Key words: | strojový překlad|analýza textu|optimální referenční překlad|překlad|srovnání |
| English key words: | machine translation|text analysis|optimal reference translation|translation|comparison |
| Academic year of topic announcement: | 2022/2023 |
| Thesis type: | Bachelor's thesis |
| Thesis language: | angličtina |
| Department: | Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (32-UFAL) |
| Supervisor: | Mgr. Martin Popel, Ph.D. |
| Author: | Gabriela Závodská - assigned and confirmed by the Study Dept. |
| Date of registration: | 14.03.2023 |
| Date of assignment: | 14.03.2023 |
| Confirmed by Study dept. on: | 23.03.2023 |
| Date and time of defence: | 05.09.2024 09:00 |
| Date of electronic submission: | 19.07.2024 |
| Date of submission of printed version: | 19.07.2024 |
| Date of proceeded defence: | 05.09.2024 |
| Opponents: | Mgr. Věra Kloudová, Ph.D. |
| Guidelines |
| The goal of the thesis is to develop a tool for analyzing differences in alternative translations of the same source text. The tool should be used for analyzing systematic differences in machine translation, standard human translation and high-quality human translation. In which aspects are these translations systematically different? The tool should report various metrics, including language model scores and frequency of part-of-speech tags, passive verbs etc. and possibly other syntactic features. There may be also metrics which compare each translation with the source text. All metrics should be sorted according to their relevance and reported at least on the level of the whole dataset, individual documents and possibly also paragraphs or sentences where it makes sense. |
| References |
| Evert, Stefan and Neumann, Stella (2017). The impact of translation direction on characteristics of translated texts. A multivariate analysis for English and German. In G. De Sutter, M.-A. Lefer, and I Delaere (eds.), Empirical Translation Studies. New Theoretical and Methodological Traditions, number 300 in TiLSM, pages 47–80. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. https://www.stephanie-evert.de/PUB/EvertNeumann2017/
Yves Bestgen. 2021. Using CollGram to Compare Formulaic Language in Human and Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Translation and Interpreting Technology Online Conference, pages 174–180, Held Online. INCOMA Ltd. https://aclanthology.org/2021.triton-1.20 Liu, Kanglong, and Muhammad Afzaal. "Syntactic complexity in translated and non-translated texts: A corpus-based study of simplification." Plos one 16.6 (2021): e0253454. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0253454 |