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Meaning of "postediting" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF POSTEDITING

ˌpəʊstˈedɪtɪŋ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF POSTEDITING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Postediting is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES POSTEDITING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Postediting

Postediting “is the process of improving a machine-generated translation with a minimum of manual labour”. A person who postedits is called a posteditor. The concept of postediting is linked to that of pre-editing. In the process of translating a text via machine translation, best results may be gained by pre-editing the source text – for example by applying the principles of controlled language – and then postediting the machine output. It is distinct from editing, which refers to the process of improving human generated text. Postedited text may afterwards be revised to ensure the quality of the language choices or proofread to correct simple mistakes. Postediting involves the correction of machine translation output to ensure that it meets a level of quality negotiated in advance between the client and the posteditor. Light postediting aims at making the output simply understandable; full post-editing at making it also stylistically appropriate. With advances in machine translation full postediting is becoming an alternative to manual translation.

Definition of postediting in the English dictionary

The definition of postediting in the dictionary is the act of editing after a piece of writing has been produced or printed by a machine.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH POSTEDITING

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE POSTEDITING

poste restante · posted · posteen · postelection · postembryonal · postembryonic · postemergence · postemergency · postepileptic · poster · poster boy · poster child · poster colour · poster girl · poster paint · posterior · posterior probability · posteriority · posteriorly · posterisation

WORDS THAT END LIKE POSTEDITING

accounting · awaiting · biting · copywriting · counterfeiting · creative writing · government in waiting · handwriting · inhibiting · inviting · lady-in-waiting · no waiting · recruiting · screenwriting · siting · soliciting · suiting · underwriting · uninviting · vomiting · whiting

Synonyms and antonyms of postediting in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «postediting» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF POSTEDITING

Find out the translation of postediting to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of postediting from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «postediting» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

postediting
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

postedición
570 millions of speakers
en

English

postediting
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

postediting
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

postediting
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

постредактировании
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

postediting
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

postediting
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

post-édition
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Menyiarkan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Nacheditierung
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

ポストエディット
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

사후
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Dikirim
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

postediting
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

postediting
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

पोस्टिंग
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

postediting
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

postediting
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

postediting
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

постредагуванні
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

postediting
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

postediting
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

postediting
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

postediting
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

postediting
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «POSTEDITING»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about postediting

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POSTEDITING»

Discover the use of postediting in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to postediting and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Language and Machines: Computers in Translation and ...
Thus, from the answers received, it can be seen that the translators were almost evenly divided in their opinions on the difficulty of postediting. The point of interest is that the more adept (rapid) translators found postediting more difficult than ...
National Research Council (U.S.). Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee, 1966
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Technology as Translation Strategy
TERRENCE McELHANEY AND MURIEL VASCONCELLOS In most circumstances, postediting is anindispensable element of MT, and for many applications it willprobably continue to besoindefinitely. The translator can use hisingenuity ...
Muriel Vasconcellos, Vasconcellos Muriel, 1988
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Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and ...
It is suggested here that differences in levels of postediting are associated to some extent with cohesion and coherence. The posteditor is essentially an interpreter of discourse: much of the postediting task involves either employing devices to ...
James E. Alatis, 1989
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Professional Issues for Translators and Interpreters
There are many reasons why postediting could seem like an overwhelming task. To begin with, the environment could be at fault: the MT system being used could be immature or unsuited to the particular text type; the input text could be poorly ...
Deanna L. Hammond, 1994
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Handbook of Natural Language Processing
C. Postediting The other side of the human-assisted MT coin is postediting, during which a human user takes the results of the MT process and corrects or generally tidies them up ready for the end-user. Several points need to be made about ...
Robert Dale, Hermann Moisl, Harold Somers, 2000
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Arabic Language and Linguistics
The promise to deliver a fully automated machine translation system, with no preediting and only stylistic postediting with 95 percent accuracy, was never achieved. Serious research showed that language structure was much more complex ...
Reem Bassiouney, E. Graham Katz, 2012
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Readings in Machine Translation
and cost of postediting." Appendix 14 (pp. 91-101) reported on a study involving the translation of two excerpts from a Russian book on cybernetics, and the postediting of an MT version of one of the excerpts. Interestingly, "eight translators ...
Sergei Nirenburg, H. L. Somers, Yorick Wilks, 2003
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Computers in Translation: A Practical Appraisal
McElhaney, T. and Vasconcellos, M. (1988) 'The translator and the postediting experience', in M.Vasconcellos (ed.) Technology as TranslationStrategy ( American Translators Association Scholarly Monograph Series, vol. II), Binghamton, New ...
John Newton, 2002
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Innovations in 3D Geo-information Sciences
Umit Isikdag. The degree of automatic roof recognition can be expressed by the postediting rate. It is basically dependent on the density and the type of the buildings. In modern cities for example the postediting rate is only 15 %. The higher the ...
Umit Isikdag, 2014
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Repairing Texts: Empirical Investigations of Machine ...
Temporal post-editing effort, however, immediately raises the broader issue of its determining variables: which factors determine how much time is used in postediting? The extent and types of deficiencies found in machine translations are the ...
Hans P. Krings, Geoffrey S. Koby, 2001

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POSTEDITING»

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What Is It Like to Be a Hand Model?
... we sped up the video a bit in postediting to make it feel more smooth), and I had trouble holding my hands still—rookie hand-model mistake. «Slate Magazine, Jan 14»
REFERENCE
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