Preconceptions from pre-professionals about MTPE

The Translation Process Series. Multiple perspectives from teaching to professional practice.

Edicions de la Universitat de Lleida

Lugar: Lleida; Año: 2021; p. 41 - 43

While machine translation and post-editing has become an industry standard inprofessional circuits, most translation schools have not been able to accompany these changes by updating their academic programs. We polled 100 pre-professionals to confirm whether pre-professional translators are reluctant to accept post-editing jobs mainly because they have inherited preconceptions or negative opinions about machine translation during their studies,apart from their poor or non-existent practice during their academic formation years