Abstract
New Directions in Empirical Translation Process Research is a continuation of the development which originates in descriptive translation studies as conceived by Holmes (1972) and Toury (1995). This introduction shows how this volume is a documentation of a technological development which makes it possible for translation research to go beyond the description. As the various chapters in this volume argue, the analysis of records from keyloggers and eye-trackers enable us to “explain and predict” (Holmes, 1972:71) translators’ behaviour on various levels of granularity. All contributions are centered around the CRITT TPR-DB, a unique resource of more than 500 h of recorded translation process data augmented with over 200 different annotations. The chapters describe aspects of computational, statistical and psycholinguistic models of the translation process that are facilitated by the TPR-DB. This chapter gives an overview of the contributions and provides a background for the work reported in the volume.
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Most papers which use the TPR-DB, not only in this volume, still refer to this as keylogging, even though, strictly speaking, this is actually not correct.
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Carl, M., Bangalore, S., Schaeffer, M. (2016). Introduction and Overview. In: Carl, M., Bangalore, S., Schaeffer, M. (eds) New Directions in Empirical Translation Process Research. New Frontiers in Translation Studies. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20358-4_1
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