Translog-II: a Program for Recording User Activity Data for Empirical Reading and Writing Research

Michael Carl


Abstract
This paper presents a novel implementation of Translog-II. Translog-II is a Windows-oriented program to record and study reading and writing processes on a computer. In our research, it is an instrument to acquire objective, digital data of human translation processes. As their predecessors, Translog 2000 and Translog 2006, also Translog-II consists of two main components: Translog-II Supervisor and Translog-II User, which are used to create a project file, to run a text production experiments (a user reads, writes or translates a text) and to replay the session. Translog produces a log files which contains all user activity data of the reading, writing, or translation session, and which can be evaluated by external tools. While there is a large body of translation process research based on Translog, this paper gives an overview of the Translog-II functions and its data visualization options.
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L12-1352
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Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
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May
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2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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4108–4112
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/614_Paper.pdf
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Michael Carl. 2012. Translog-II: a Program for Recording User Activity Data for Empirical Reading and Writing Research. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 4108–4112, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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