Machine Translation and the Assessment of Translation Quality

A critical review of Bernard Scott, ed. 2018. Translation, Brains and the Computer. Cham: Springer. xvi + 241 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-09538-3. Joss Morkens, Sheila Castilho, Federico Gaspari and Stephen Doherty, eds. 2018. Translation Quality Assessment. From Principles to Practice. Cham: Springer. xii + 287 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-08206-2.

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  • Elisabet Comelles Universitat de Barcelona

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https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2022-44.1.13

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Elisabet Comelles, Universitat de Barcelona

Elisabet Comelles Pujadas is a lecturer in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures and of English Studies at the University of Barcelona, where she teaches English Lexicology and Morphology and Descriptive Grammar of English. She holds a PhD in Cognitive Science and Language (UB). Her research interests include Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Machine Translation Evaluation and Corpus Linguistics. 

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2022-06-29

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Comelles, E. (2022). Machine Translation and the Assessment of Translation Quality: A critical review of Bernard Scott, ed. 2018. Translation, Brains and the Computer. Cham: Springer. xvi + 241 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-09538-3. Joss Morkens, Sheila Castilho, Federico Gaspari and Stephen Doherty, eds. 2018. Translation Quality Assessment. From Principles to Practice. Cham: Springer. xii + 287 pp. ISBN: 978-3-030-08206-2. Atlantis. Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies, 44(1), 233–244. https://doi.org/10.28914/Atlantis-2022-44.1.13

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