Lexicogrammatic translationese across two targets and competence levels (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a specificity of translations with English as a source language produced by students and professional translators is investigated by genre-comparable data from a number of parallel and comparable corpora. |
| Approach: | They propose to use genre-comparable data to explore the specificity of translations . they use a set of human-interpretable lexicogrammatic translationese indicators . |
| Outcome: | The proposed feature set can reliably distinguish translations and non-translations regardless of the language pair and translation variety. |
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