DiHuTra: a Parallel Corpus to Analyse Differences between Human Translations (2022.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | a new corpus of human translations contains both professional and student translations of news and reviews texts. |
| Approach: | They propose to use the data to compare human and professional translations of news and reviews in a new corpus which contains both professional and student translations. |
| Outcome: | The proposed corpus contains professional and student translations of news and reviews and a subcorpus containing reviews into Finnish. |
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