Full Description
This edited book covers a range of topics related to the use of corpora in translation education, including their standing in corpus-based translation studies, their relationship with machine learning and post-editing, recent advances in learner corpora development and the integration of corpora into translation pedagogy.
The book draws the reader into the latest debate on the potential benefits and challenges of using corpora in translation education, as well as serving as practical guidance on how to incorporate corpora into their teaching practice.
The book is of particular interest to translation educators, researchers, and postgraduate students who are interested in exploring theoretical underpinnings as well as new ways of teaching and learning translation.
Contents
1. Introduction.- Corpora and Translator Education: Past, Present and Future.- Applying Incremental Learning to Post-Editing Systems: Towards Online Adaptation for Automatic Post-Editing Models.- Integrating Trados-Qualitivity Data to the CRITT TPR-DB: Measuring Post-Editing.- Creating and Using "Virtual Corpora" to Extract and Analyse Domain-Specific Vocabulary at English-Corpora.org.- Working with Corpora in Translation Technology Teaching: Enhancing Aspects of Course Design.- How do Students Perform and Perceive Parallel Corpus Use in Translation Tasks? Evidence from an Experimental Study.- Data Acquisition and other Technical Challenges in Learner Corpora and Translation Learner Corpora.- Investigating the Chinese and English Language Proficiency of Tertiary Students in Hong Kong: Insights from a Student Translation Corpus.
