Teaching Machine Translation to Trainee Translators:a Survey of Their Knowledge and Opinions

the workshop Teaching Machine Translation

计算机科学;语言文字学

Federico Gaspari

PID  :  83300

来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

This paper reports upon a survey carried out among thirtyeight trainee translators who took courses on machine translation. Thesurvey was conducted asking the sample of students to fill out a questionnaire both at the beginning and at the end of the MT course.The questions aimed at assessing the degree of knowledge about MT of the respondents and the opinions and impressions that theyaccordingly had on it.The results of the questionnaire were elaborated so as to investigate the relationship between the increase in the knowledge about MTafter the conclusion of the course, and the corresponding change in the students’ attitude towards the discipline, which became muchless biased and in general fairly positive, thanks to a very successful and rewarding learning process. The paper suggests that the morethe trainee translators became familiar with MT, realising its reasonable potential and current limitations, the less afraid they were of it.These findings encourage the increasing integration and introduction of technology into translation curricula, since the impact ofcomputer technology on language translation directly affects professional human translators. As a result, exposing trainee translators to