Abstract
This study analyzes usage statistics and the results of an end-user survey to compile a snapshot of the current use and users of one online machine translation (MT) tool, Multilizer’s PDF Translator1. The results reveal that the tool is used predominantly for assimilation purposes and that respondents use MT often. People use the tool to translate texts from different areas of life, including work, study and leisure. Of these, the study area is currently the most prevalent. The results also reveal a tendency for users to machine translate documents that are in languages they have some understanding of, rather than texts they do not understand at all. The findings imply that gist MT is becoming a part of people’s everyday lives and that perhaps people use gist MT in a different way than they use publishing-level translations.- Anthology ID:
- 2018.eamt-main.20
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2018
- Address:
- Alicante, Spain
- Editors:
- Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Maja Popović, Celia Rico, André Martins, Joachim Van den Bogaert, Mikel L. Forcada
- Venue:
- EAMT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Note:
- Pages:
- 219–228
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2018.eamt-main.20
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Mary Nurminen and Niko Papula. 2018. Gist MT Users: A Snapshot of the Use and Users of One Online MT Tool. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, pages 219–228, Alicante, Spain.
- Cite (Informal):
- Gist MT Users: A Snapshot of the Use and Users of One Online MT Tool (Nurminen & Papula, EAMT 2018)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2018.eamt-main.20.pdf