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This article aims at assessing the impact of the use of monolingual original corpora in the target language, hereafter MOC, containing texts produced by native speakers, on translation quality with respect to errors related to the relationship between source and target text (adequacy errors) and errors in the target text independent of the source text (acceptability errors) (cf. (Daems et al 2014:62). Past limited research has shown that MOC ...

ABSTRACTIn translation quality assessment, analytical instruments, such as error taxonomies differentiating various error categories, are commonly used. Several studies state that the types of errors made in translation may differ depending on the translation aids used, viz. none (referred to as human translation - HT), machine translation (MT) or translation memories (TMs). An overview is presented of the most frequent error types in these ...

This paper explains how to use the PIE method, a criterion- and norm-referenced analytical translation evaluation method, with particular emphasis on translator training. In addition, it sheds light on the test construct and the preparation phase that precedes the PIE evaluation. The source text and item selection, as well as the dichotomous categorisation of translation solutions are discussed in detail. This paper also clarifies and refines ...

AbstractThe implementation of parallel corpora (source texts and their corresponding translations) as translation memories (TMs) in translation practice is widespread. This implementation may have different effects with regard to translation quality on stylistic, phraseological and terminological levels. In order to analyse these effects we conducted a small-scale experiment with 14 students from the English Translation Workshop: Translating ...

Several international surveys show that language professionals are well acquainted with computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools as well as with (integrated) terminology management systems. However, corpora can be valuable in the translation process as well. To complement the previous surveys, we conducted a survey among Belgian and Dutch translation professionals which assessed their use of CAT tools, terminology management systems and ...

AbstractThis paper complements a previous study on the impact of the use of monolingual original corpora in the target language consisting of texts produced by native speakers (hereafter MOC) on translation quality (error rate) (cf. Lambrechts & Verplaetse, forthcoming). This earlier study showed a limited positive effect of MOC in combination with other resources such as translation memories (TMs) on student translations of business and ...

This chapter first describes the fundamentals of medical concept formation, the different types of medical concepts and the specific properties of medical terms. We provide an overview of the most important types of terminologies (controlled vocabularies) and databases and of the recent national and international medical terminology standardization activities (CEN/TC 251). We introduce the domain of medical linguistics as a field of study that ...

AbstractInformation in patient information leaflets (PILs) must be comprehensible for lay readers. For that purpose popularization strategies can be applied. These include explicitation of scientific terms as well as replacing scientific terms with lay terms. Increased comprehension may entail increased patient compliance, as a result of decreased uncertainty. We analyzed scientific versus lay medical terminology and other explicitation ...