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| author | Bandaru, Devi Sri Carl, Michael Ren, Xinyue |
| author_facet | Bandaru, Devi Sri Carl, Michael Ren, Xinyue |
| contents | Text production (and translations) proceeds in the form of stretches of typing, interrupted by keystroke pauses. It is often assumed that fast typing reflects unchallenged/automated translation production while long(er) typing pauses are indicative of translation problems, hurdles or difficulties. Building on a long discussion concerning the determination of pause thresholds that separate automated from presumably reflective translation processes (O'Brien, 2006; Alves and Vale, 2009; Timarova et al., 2011; Dragsted and Carl, 2013; Lacruz et al., 2014; Kumpulainen, 2015; Heilmann and Neumann 2016), this paper compares three recent approaches for computing these pause thresholds, and suggest and evaluate a novel method for computing Production Unit Breaks. |
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| spellingShingle | Assessing Pause Thresholds for empirical Translation Process Research Bandaru, Devi Sri Carl, Michael Ren, Xinyue Computation and Language Text production (and translations) proceeds in the form of stretches of typing, interrupted by keystroke pauses. It is often assumed that fast typing reflects unchallenged/automated translation production while long(er) typing pauses are indicative of translation problems, hurdles or difficulties. Building on a long discussion concerning the determination of pause thresholds that separate automated from presumably reflective translation processes (O'Brien, 2006; Alves and Vale, 2009; Timarova et al., 2011; Dragsted and Carl, 2013; Lacruz et al., 2014; Kumpulainen, 2015; Heilmann and Neumann 2016), this paper compares three recent approaches for computing these pause thresholds, and suggest and evaluate a novel method for computing Production Unit Breaks. |
| title | Assessing Pause Thresholds for empirical Translation Process Research |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01410 |