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Because We’re Worth It 因为我们值得
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21030.lam
Joseph Lambert, Callum Walker
Rate-setting is a problematic area for newcomers to translation and established practitioners alike. Survey data generally support the view that translators feel underpaid and that money matters remain a chief ethical and pragmatic concern, but appropriate guidance is almost entirely absent from introductory textbooks on the translation profession and documentation prepared by industry associations remains unsatisfactory. Focusing on the translation industry in the United Kingdom, this conceptual paper explores constraints that limit price formation practices, and argues that translators feel under threat from disruptive technologies, Uberisation, and non-professional translation, now more than ever. We explore the complex interaction between status, internal and external perceptions, and regulation, and illustrate their push-pull relationship with rate-setting within a range of industry ‘educators’, uncovering the ways in which translators themselves, translation associations, and academic institutions directly and indirectly impact upon rate-setting practices. The article concludes by considering potential channels to buoy status and improve rate-setting practices in the translation industry.
对于新来翻译的人和资深从业者来说,费率设置都是一个有问题的领域。调查数据普遍支持这样一种观点,即翻译人员感到薪酬过低,金钱问题仍然是道德和务实的主要问题,但关于翻译专业的入门教科书几乎完全没有适当的指导,行业协会编写的文件仍然不令人满意。本文以英国的翻译行业为中心,探讨了限制价格形成实践的制约因素,并认为译者现在比以往任何时候都更容易受到颠覆性技术、优步化和非专业翻译的威胁。我们探索了地位、内部和外部感知以及监管之间的复杂互动,并在一系列行业“教育工作者”中说明了它们与费率制定的推拉关系,揭示了翻译人员自身、翻译协会和学术机构直接和间接影响费率制定实践的方式。文章最后考虑了在翻译行业提高地位和改进费率设置实践的潜在渠道。
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引用次数: 0
Establishing a theoretical framework for AVT research 建立AVT研究的理论框架
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21024.kru
Jan-Louis Kruger, Sixin Liao
Empirical research on the cognitive processing of audiovisual translation (AVT) products has been thriving over the past decade. While the use of cutting-edge experimental tools such as eye trackers has drawn increasing scholarly attention and accelerated the progress in understanding the complex mental processes involved in the reception of multimodal AVT products, relatively less attention has been devoted to the importance of establishing a theoretical framework or cognitive model that can explain and predict the behaviours observed in empirical experiments. By reviewing numerous theories or cognitive models relevant to AVT research in explaining how different perceptual and cognitive systems operate for understanding multimodal products, this paper calls for engagement with these theoretical frameworks and models to work towards a robust model that can generate testable hypotheses for the integration and interaction of multiple sources of information involved in the processing of AVT or other multimodal products.
近十年来,对视听翻译产品认知加工的实证研究蓬勃发展。虽然眼动仪等尖端实验工具的使用引起了越来越多的学术关注,并加速了理解接收多模式AVT产品所涉及的复杂心理过程的进展,建立一个能够解释和预测经验实验中观察到的行为的理论框架或认知模型的重要性相对较少。通过回顾与AVT研究相关的许多理论或认知模型来解释不同的感知和认知系统如何操作以理解多模式产品,本文呼吁参与这些理论框架和模型,以建立一个稳健的模型,该模型可以为AVT或其他多模式产品处理中涉及的多个信息源的集成和交互生成可测试的假设。
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引用次数: 1
Preparing and comparing subtitles for quasi-experimental and experimental research in audiovisual translation studies 视听翻译研究中准实验与实验字幕的准备与比较
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-07-19 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21038.van
Senne M. Van Hoecke, Iris Schrijver, Isabelle S. Robert
Empirical research on cognitive processing in AVT has been on the rise in recent years. A number of overarching works have recommended more standardised approaches and methodological frameworks to contribute to more streamlined, replicable, reproducible and valid future AVT research. To date, the issue of comparability of research materials (e.g., clips, subtitle tracks, comprehension questionnaires) and, more specifically, how to achieve comparability in quasi-experimental and experimental studies, particularly those involving repeated measures, has received little attention. This paper aims to address this knowledge gap by proposing a common-sense ten-step preparatory process for quasi-experimental and experimental subtitling studies. This preparatory process has previously been used in the S4AE project. The paper will focus on the final four steps, consisting of the preparation and comparison of multiple subtitle tracks. These steps were conceptualized taking into account the present research on subtitle parameters and the obstacles encountered while preparing comparable subtitle tracks.
近年来,对AVT认知加工的实证研究逐渐兴起。一些总体工作已经推荐了更标准化的方法和方法框架,以促进更精简,可复制,可重复和有效的未来AVT研究。迄今为止,研究材料(例如片段、字幕、理解问卷)的可比性问题,更具体地说,如何在准实验和实验研究中实现可比性,特别是那些涉及重复测量的研究,很少受到关注。本文旨在通过提出准实验和实验字幕研究的常识性十步准备过程来解决这一知识差距。这一准备过程曾在S4AE项目中使用过。本文将重点研究最后四个步骤,包括多个字幕轨的准备和比较。考虑到目前对字幕参数的研究以及在编制可比字幕轨道时遇到的障碍,对这些步骤进行了概念化。
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引用次数: 0
Using linear mixed models to analyze data from eye-tracking research on subtitling 使用线性混合模型分析字幕眼动追踪研究的数据
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-14 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21013.sil
Breno B. Silva, David Orrego-Carmona, A. Szarkowska
In this paper, we aim to promote the use of linear mixed models (LMMs) in eye-tracking research on subtitling. Using eye tracking to study viewers’ reading of subtitles often warrants controlling for many confounding variables. However, even assuming that these variables are known to researchers, such control may not be possible or desired. Traditional statistical methods such as t-tests or ANOVAs exacerbate the problem due to the use of aggregated data: each participant has one data point per dependent variable. As a solution, we propose the use of LMMs, which are better suited to account for a number of subtitle and participant characteristics, thus explaining more variance. We introduce essential theoretical aspects of LMMs and highlight some of their advantages over traditional statistical methods. To illustrate our point, we compare two analyses of the same dataset: one using a t-test; another using LMMs.
在本文中,我们旨在促进线性混合模型(LMM)在字幕眼动跟踪研究中的应用。使用眼动追踪来研究观众对字幕的阅读通常需要控制许多混淆变量。然而,即使假设研究人员知道这些变量,这种控制也可能是不可能或不希望的。传统的统计方法,如t检验或方差分析,由于使用了汇总数据,加剧了这个问题:每个参与者每个因变量有一个数据点。作为一种解决方案,我们建议使用LMM,它更适合解释一些字幕和参与者特征,从而解释更多的差异。我们介绍了LMM的基本理论方面,并强调了它们相对于传统统计方法的一些优势。为了说明我们的观点,我们比较了同一数据集的两种分析:一种是使用t检验;另一个使用LMM。
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引用次数: 2
Experimental research in automatic subtitling 自动字幕的实验研究
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-14 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21021.kar
Alina Karakanta
Recent developments in neural machine translation, and especially speech translation, are gradually but firmly entering the field of audiovisual translation (AVT). Automation in subtitling is extending from a machine translation (MT) component to fully automatic subtitling, which comprises MT, auto-spotting and automatic segmentation. The rise of this new paradigm renders MT-oriented experimental designs inadequate for the evaluation and investigation of automatic subtitling, since they fail to encompass the multimodal nature and technical requirements of subtitling. This paper highlights the methodological gaps to be addressed by multidisciplinary efforts in order to overcome these inadequacies and obtain metrics and methods that lead to rigorous experimental research in automatic subtitling. It presents a review of previous experimental designs in MT for subtitling, identifies their limitations for conducting research under the new paradigm and proposes a set of recommendations towards achieving replicability and reproducibility in experimental research at the crossroads between AVT and MT.
神经机器翻译,尤其是语音翻译的最新发展正在逐步但坚定地进入视听翻译领域。字幕自动化正在从机器翻译(MT)组件扩展到全自动字幕,包括MT、自动定位和自动分割。这种新范式的兴起使得面向机器翻译的实验设计不足以评估和研究自动字幕,因为它们未能涵盖字幕的多模式性质和技术要求。本文强调了多学科努力需要解决的方法差距,以克服这些不足,并获得指标和方法,从而在自动字幕中进行严格的实验研究。它回顾了MT以前的实验设计,确定了它们在新范式下进行研究的局限性,并提出了一系列建议,以在AVT和MT之间的十字路口实现实验研究的可复制性和再现性。
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引用次数: 2
Physiological instruments meet mixed methods in Media Accessibility 生理仪器在介质可及性方面满足混合方法
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-05-30 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21020.her
Irene Hermosa-Ramírez
Mixed methods have an established trajectory in the social sciences. Audiovisual Translation and Media Accessibility (MA) Studies are also increasingly applying the “third research paradigm” (Johnson et al., 2007, 112). Yet, publications in our field often fail to discuss the mixed-method nature of the study in depth, be it because of space limitations or a lack of deliberate integration of the methods. Concurrently, MA has seen a boom in experimental research, as descriptive approaches have given way to reception and user-centred studies that engage in the cognitive processes and immersion of audiences (Orero et al. 2018). This article proposes a methodological basis for MA researchers to design studies employing physiological instruments within a mixed methods framework. The core mixed methods designs (convergent, explanatory, and exploratory) are presented, and examples of their applications to research employing physiological instruments are discussed.
混合方法在社会科学中有着既定的轨迹。视听翻译和媒体可及性(MA)研究也越来越多地应用“第三种研究范式”(Johnson et al., 2007, 112)。然而,由于空间限制或缺乏对方法的刻意整合,我们领域的出版物往往未能深入讨论研究的混合方法性质。与此同时,MA在实验研究方面也出现了蓬勃发展,因为描述性方法已经让位于以接受和用户为中心的研究,这些研究涉及受众的认知过程和沉浸感(oreo等人,2018)。本文提出了MA研究人员在混合方法框架内使用生理仪器设计研究的方法学基础。介绍了核心的混合方法设计(收敛、解释和探索),并讨论了它们在使用生理仪器进行研究中的应用实例。
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引用次数: 1
Evaluating audio description and emotional engagement for BPS visitors in a museum context 评估博物馆背景下BPS访客的音频描述和情感参与
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-05-23 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21019.wan
Xi Wang, D. Crookes, S. Harding, David Johnston
Museums face a particular challenge in enabling blind and partially sighted (BPS) visitors to engage emotionally with the narrative(s) they present. In collaboration with a world-leading tourist attraction (Titanic Belfast) and the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB), we have applied several different approaches for improving emotional engagement for BPS visitors. This paper addresses the critical challenge of how to obtain reliable evidence for evaluating the emotional response of BPS visitors to the museum’s audio description (AD) and overall experience. We consider six different methods for measuring emotional engagement, and consider their potential for providing reliable experimental evidence. Based on BPS-user feedback, we present a qualitative comparison of these methods, uniquely all applied to the same museum context.
博物馆面临着一个特殊的挑战,即让盲人和部分视力(BPS)游客能够在情感上参与他们所呈现的叙事。我们与世界领先的旅游景点(泰坦尼克号贝尔法斯特)和英国皇家国家盲人研究所(RNIB)合作,采用了几种不同的方法来提高BPS游客的情感参与度。本文解决了如何获得可靠证据来评估BPS游客对博物馆音频描述(AD)和整体体验的情绪反应的关键挑战。我们考虑了六种不同的测量情绪投入的方法,并考虑了它们提供可靠实验证据的潜力。基于BPS用户的反馈,我们对这些方法进行了定性比较,这些方法都独特地应用于同一博物馆环境。
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引用次数: 0
Creativity in translation 翻译中的创造性
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-28 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21025.gue
Ana Guerberof-Arenas, Antonio Toral
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 novelty and acceptability, from a quantitative perspective. The results show that HT has the highest creativity score, followed by PE, and lastly, MT, and this is unanimous from all reviewers. A neural MT system trained on literary data does not currently have the necessary capabilities for a creative translation; it renders literal solutions to translation problems. More importantly, using MT to post-edit raw output constrains the creativity of translators, resulting in a poorer translation often not fit for publication, according to experts.
本文介绍了一项研究的结果,该研究涉及Kurt Vonnegut的短篇小说从英语到加泰罗尼亚语和荷兰语的翻译,使用了三种模式:机器翻译(MT)、后编辑(PE)和无辅助翻译(HT)。我们的目标是从数量的角度探索创造力,被理解为涉及新颖性和可接受性。结果表明,HT的创造力得分最高,其次是PE,最后是MT,这是所有评论家一致的。基于文学数据训练的神经机器翻译系统目前不具备创造性翻译的必要能力;它提供了翻译问题的文字解决方案。专家表示,更重要的是,使用机器翻译对原始输出进行后期编辑会限制译者的创造力,导致翻译质量较差,通常不适合出版。
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引用次数: 16
Some Translation Studies informed suggestions for further balancing methodologies for machine translation quality evaluation 一些翻译研究提出了进一步平衡机器翻译质量评价方法的建议
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-03-18 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21026.kru
Ralph Krüger
This article intends to contribute to the current debate on the quality of neural machine translation (NMT) vs. (professional) human translation quality, where recently claims concerning (super)human performance of NMT systems have emerged. The article will critically analyse some current machine translation (MT) quality evaluation methodologies employed in studies claiming such performance of their MT systems. This analysis aims to identify areas where these methodologies are potentially biased in favour of MT and hence may overvalue MT performance while undervaluing human translation performance. Then, the article provides some Translation Studies informed suggestions for improving or debiasing these methodologies in order to arrive at a more balanced picture of MT vs. (professional) human translation quality.
本文旨在为当前关于神经机器翻译(NMT)质量与(专业)人工翻译质量的争论做出贡献,最近出现了关于NMT系统(超)人类表现的说法。本文将批判性地分析一些当前的机器翻译(MT)质量评估方法,这些方法在声称其机器翻译系统的这种性能的研究中使用。本分析旨在确定这些方法可能偏向于机器翻译的领域,从而可能高估机器翻译的性能,而低估人工翻译的性能。然后,本文提供了一些改进或消除这些方法偏见的翻译研究建议,以便对机器翻译和(专业)人工翻译质量有一个更平衡的认识。
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引用次数: 6
Assessing the impact of translation guidelines in Wikipedia 评估维基百科翻译指南的影响
IF 1.6 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-02-24 DOI: 10.1075/ts.21028.gon
José Gustavo Góngora-Goloubintseff
Wikipedia is a multilingual, user-driven online encyclopaedia available in 325 languages and language varieties. Such linguistic diversity has drawn the attention of translation scholars over the past decade. Previous research has addressed, among other issues, the quality of translated Wikipedia entries, the motivations driving editors-translators, and the taxing negotiations behind editorial changes. Nevertheless, the processes underpinning translation practices in the encyclopaedia have often been overlooked. Consequently, this paper adopts a praxeological approach to translation by analysing documented standards across four Wikipedia language communities and the extent to which 16 experienced translators have assimilated them. The findings suggest that Wikipedia guidelines on translation have slight but tangible differences across the communities under investigation. Moreover, the interview data showed a tendency among participants to attach more importance to cross-wiki editing policies than to any local translation guidelines. This preference ultimately reinforces previous claims that translation and editing in Wikipedia form a continuum.
维基百科是一个多语言、用户驱动的在线百科全书,提供325种语言和语言变体。这种语言多样性在过去的十年中引起了翻译学者的关注。之前的研究已经解决了一些问题,包括维基百科翻译条目的质量,编辑和翻译的动机,以及编辑变更背后的繁重谈判。然而,支撑百科全书翻译实践的过程经常被忽视。因此,本文通过分析四个维基百科语言社区的文档标准以及16位经验丰富的翻译人员对这些标准的吸收程度,采用了一种行为学的方法来翻译。研究结果表明,维基百科关于翻译的指导方针在被调查的社区之间存在细微但明显的差异。此外,访谈数据显示,参与者倾向于更重视跨维基编辑政策,而不是任何本地翻译指南。这种偏好最终强化了之前的说法,即维基百科的翻译和编辑形成了一个连续体。
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