• Survey for Post-Editors of Machine Translation

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  • This research is carried out within the framework of [anonymized].

    It aims to identify the skills and competencies necessary for professional post-editors of machine translation. It is addressed to professionals who, as part of their job, post-edit machine translated content.

    Your participation in this survey-based empirical research is voluntary and your data will remain confidential and will only be used for research purposes.

    Should you have any questions, feel free to contact [anonymized].

    Filling in this questionnaire takes around 15 minutes. Required questions are marked by an asterisk.

    At the end, you will be invited to leave your e-mail address if you wish to receive a report with the results.

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    The survey is currently closed. Submissions are no longer considered.

     

  • Basic Information

    In this section, you will be asked general questions to build a demographic overview about the respondents.

  • PEMT (post-editing machine translation) Projects

  • PEMT (or MTPE, machine translation post-editing) is defined as "editing and correcting machine translation output". Machine translation is defined as "automatic translation of text from one natural language to another using a computer application".

    Source: ISO 18587-2017



  • Certifications


  • Current Trends in PEMT Projects

  • The next three sections will ask the core questions of this survey.

    • Your PEMT Background 

    • 16. Please select the most frequent language pairs in which you have post-edited machine translation output.

    • It seems that your language is not in the list. Please specify it below.

      Language codes follow ISO 639-2, and ">" shows direction towards. For instance "EN>FR" would be English into French. Feel free to write the name of the languages in full letters if you are not sure about the ISO code. The symbol "<>" can be used to show bidirectionality, for instance "French<>English".








    • Controlled Language / Authoring



    • The MT Post-Editor Profile 

    • Please pay special attention to the next three questions. They are of paramount importance for the present research.

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    • The MT Post-Editing Project 

    • Post-Editing Assignment or Brief


    • PE Guidelines


    • Feedback for MT Improvement


    • TQA (Translation Quality Assessment)


  • Training & Education

    • Training in Post-editing of MT 

    • Training offered to you by your firm, company, LSP or client



    • Training provided by a University


    • Other | Training provided by another group or association


    • Never attended any course on post-editing of machine translation

  • Technology & Tools

  • 64. Please select the CAT tool(s) that you use most often for PEMT projects.


  • 66. What MT provider(s) do you use most often for PEMT projects?


  • TM/MT Not integrated


  • Integrated TM/MT





  • Feelings & Thoughts




  • Thank you!

  • For this research, we are only considering post-editors who reside in Europe.

  • For this research, we are only considering professionals that have already worked with machine translation to post-edit its output.

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