The CRITT Translation Process Research Database (TPR-DB) | Thematic Network on Empirical Research in Translation and Cognition

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Brief description:

The CRITT TPR Database is a publicly available database of recorded translation sessions for Translation Process Research (TPR). It contains user activity data (UAD) of translation (and text production) behavior collected with Translog-II and with the CASMACAT workbench. The data acquisition software logs keystrokes and gaze data during text perception and text production. In addition to the raw logging data, a post-processed version (the TPR-DB) is made available which projects the raw data into a rich set of product and process units that can be more easily processed by various visualization and analysis tools. The data is made available under a creative commons license.

Project publications:

Balling Winther, Laura and Michael Carl 2014..Production Time Across Languages and Tasks: A Large-scale Analysis using the CRITT Translation Process Database.

Balling, LW , Hvelplund, KT & Sjørup, AC (2014), ' Evidence of Parallel Processing During Translation ' Meta : Journal des traducteurs , vol 59, nr. 2.

Dragsted, Barbara; Michael Carl. 2013. Towards a Classification of Translation Styles based on Eye-tracking and Keylogging Data In: Journal of the Writing Research, Vol. 5, No. 1, 6.2013, p. 133-158

Carl, M., Dragsted, B., Jakobsen, A. L. (2011) A Taxonomy of Human Translation Styles, Translation Journal, Vol. 16, No. 2

Elming, Jakob, Laura Winther Balling and Michael Carl. 2014. Investigating User Behaviour in Post-editing and Translation Using the CASMACAT Workbench.

Jakobsen, A. L. 1999. Logging target text production with Translog. In G. Hansen (ed.). Probing the Process in Translation. Methods and Results. (Copenhagen Studies in Language 24). Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur. 9-20.

Jakobsen, Arnt Lykke (2011) Tracking Translators’ Keystrokes and Eye Movements with Translog. In: Methods and Strategies of Process research : Integrative Approaches in Translation Studies, Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 37-55.

Jensen, K.T.H. 2009. Indicators of text complexity. In S. Göpferich, A. L. Jakobsen & I. M. Mees (eds). Behind the Mind: Methods, Models and Results in Translation Process Research. (Copenhagen Studies in Language 36). Copenhagen: Samfundslitteratur.

Jensen, K.T.H. 2011. Distribution of attention between source text and target text during translation. In S. O’Brien (ed.). Continuum Studies in Translation: Cognitive Explorations of Translation. London and New York: Continuum.

Carl, Michael. 2012. Translog-II: a Program for Recording User Activity Data for Empirical Translation Process Research. Paper presented at The Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

Carl, Michael, Silke Gutermuth and Silvia Hansen-Schirra. 2015. Post-editing machine translation: Efficiency, strategies, and revision processes in professional translation settings.