Machine translation and post-editing: profiles and competences in translator training programmes

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Published: Jan 30, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.11.7
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machine translation, post-editing, translator training, professional profile, technological competences

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Pilar Cid-Leal
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9820-7541
María-Carmen Espín-García
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1028-7119
Marisa Presas
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5131-9850

Abstract

Studies on the professional translation market show that employers increasingly demand translators who master tools related to machine translation. This fact compels translator training centers to consider what the new professional profiles are and what new competences students should acquire. In this article we reflect on these two aspects through a literature survey and an analysis of the web pages of undergraduate and master’s degrees in translation taught at Spanish universities in academic year 2017-2018. Our analysis has focused on the presence of machine translation (MT) and post-editing (PE) in professional profiles, competencies and contents described in academic curricula. Our results indicate that the learning of this technology plays a marginal role in translator training programmes. The article concludes with a proposal of a general framework of competences which integrates both MT and PE.

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Cid-Leal, P., Espín-García, M.-C., & Presas, M. (2020). Machine translation and post-editing: profiles and competences in translator training programmes. MonTI. Monographs in Translation and Interpreting, (11), 187–214. https://doi.org/10.6035/MonTI.2019.11.7
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No. 11 (2019): Porque algo tiene que cambiar. La formación de traductores e intérpretes: presente & futuro
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Author Biographies

Pilar Cid-Leal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Pilar Cid-Leal has a PhD in Communication Science, a BA in History and a BA in Library and Information Science. She is a Senior Lecturer at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), where she started working in 1990. She has taught courses in various degrees. Since 1990 he has participated in twelve subsidized R&D projects. She regularly publishes works on Information Science, Translation and Teaching Innovation. She is a member of the Tradumàtica Group and the co-director of the digital journal Tradumàtica, specialized in translation technologies. Her current research lines are Information Science applied to translation and Library and Information Science.

María-Carmen Espín-García, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Maria Carmen Espin-Garcia is a Lecturer of Chinese Language and Chinese Translation at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Prior to this, she was a Lecturer of Spanish, English and French at Hebei Normal University (2003-2014) and from 2008 she was the Director of the Spanish Training Centre of the Institute of International Culture Exchange of the Hebei Normal University. She has a PhD in Theory of Translation and in Chinese Philology. She has translated contemporary Chinese authors. Her main research interests are translation teaching methodology, Chinese as a foreign language and Chinese reading acquisition and translation technologies. She is a member of CERAO (Centre d’Estudis i Recerca sobre Àsia Oriental) and the Tradumatica Research Group.

Marisa Presas, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Marisa Presas is Senior Lecturer at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Her teaching areas are German-Spanish Translation and Research Methodology. She is a member of the PETRA Research Group (Expertise and Environment in Translation, Spanish acronym), a member of the TREC network (Translation, Research, Empiricism, Cognition) and a member of the Tradumàtica Group. She has published articles in Target, The Interpreter and Translator Trainer and other journals, and book chapters in Peter Lang, Frank & Timme, Bloomsbury, and Wiley. Her research focuses mainly on translation teaching methodology and translation technologies.

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