Interpretese vs. translationese: The uniqueness of human strategies in simultaneous interpretation

He He; Jordan Boyd-Graber; Hal Daumé

doi:10.18653/v1/n16-1111

Interpretese vs. translationese: The uniqueness of human strategies in simultaneous interpretation

He He, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Hal Daumé

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Computational approaches to simultaneous interpretation are stymied by how little we know about the tactics human interpreters use. We produce a parallel corpus of translated and simultaneously interpreted text and study differences between them through a computational approach. Our analysis reveals that human interpreters regularly apply several effective tactics to reduce translation latency, including sentence segmentation and passivization. In addition to these unique, clever strategies, we show that limited human memory also causes other idiosyncratic properties of human interpretation such as generalization and omission of source content.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	971-976
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781941643914
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/n16-1111
State	Published - 2016
Event	15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - San Diego, United States Duration: Jun 12 2016 → Jun 17 2016

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Name	2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference

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Other	15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	6/12/16 → 6/17/16

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Computer Science Applications
Linguistics and Language
Language and Linguistics

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He, H., Boyd-Graber, J., & Daumé, H. (2016). Interpretese vs. translationese: The uniqueness of human strategies in simultaneous interpretation. In 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 971-976). (2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/n16-1111

Interpretese vs. translationese: The uniqueness of human strategies in simultaneous interpretation. / He, He; Boyd-Graber, Jordan; Daumé, Hal.
2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016. p. 971-976 (2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

He, H, Boyd-Graber, J & Daumé, H 2016, Interpretese vs. translationese: The uniqueness of human strategies in simultaneous interpretation. in 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference. 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 971-976, 15th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016, San Diego, United States, 6/12/16. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/n16-1111

He H, Boyd-Graber J, Daumé H. Interpretese vs. translationese: The uniqueness of human strategies in simultaneous interpretation. In 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2016. p. 971-976. (2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference). doi: 10.18653/v1/n16-1111

He, He ; Boyd-Graber, Jordan ; Daumé, Hal. / Interpretese vs. translationese : The uniqueness of human strategies in simultaneous interpretation. 2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016. pp. 971-976 (2016 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2016 - Proceedings of the Conference).

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