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Main Authors: Bandaru, Devi Sri, Carl, Michael, Ren, Xinyue
Format: Preprint
Published: 2026
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01410
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  • 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.