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En este articulo se abordan las consecuencias del uso de la traducción automática neuronal entrenada a partir de corpus obtenidos de traducciones de géneros textuales específicos producidos en contextos profesionales concretos. Fenómenos como el translationese y el post-editese vinculados al uso de la traducción automática marcan la necesidad de orientar la investigación hacia nuevas maneras de abordar la calidad en la traducción profesional. Desde una perspectiva de salvaguarda de las lenguas en tanto que patrimonio cultural inmaterial, se plantean diversas cuestiones relacionadas con el efecto que puede tener, en las cultures y las lengua de llegada, el uso de la traducción automática, en términos de percepción y de calidad, y cómo su uso puede llegar a alterar el estándar de la lengua. Se apunta la necesidad de definir umbrales de calidad de la traducción que vayan más allá de los aspectos relacionados con la detección de errores, que es el tipo de correcciones de mayor viabilidad económica.

In the present study, we investigated the post-editese phenomenon, i.e., the unique features that set machine translated post-edited texts apart from human-translated texts. We used two literary texts, namely, the English children’s novel by Lewis Carroll Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (AW) and Paula Hawkins’ popular book The Girl on the Train (TGOTT). Both literary texts were Google translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese to investigate whether the post-editese features can be found on the surface of the post-edited (PE) texts. In addition, we examined how the features found in the PE texts differ from the features encountered in the human-translated (HT) and machine translation (MT) versions of the same source text. Results revealed evidence for post-editese for TGOTT only with PE versions being more similar to the MT output than to the HT texts.

In the present study, we investigated the post-editese phenomenon, i.e., the unique features that set machine translated post-edited texts apart from human-translated texts. We used two literary texts, namely, the English children's novel by Lewis Carroll Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (AW) and Paula Hawkins' popular book The Girl on the Train (TGOTT). Both literary texts were Google translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese to investigate whether the post-editese features can be found on the surface of the post-edited (PE) texts. In addition, we examined how the features found in the PE texts differ from the features encountered in the human-translated (HT) and machine translation (MT) versions of the same source text. Results revealed evidence for post-editese for TGOTT only with PE versions being more similar to the MT output than to the HT texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]