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Multi-Retranslation Corpora: Visibility, Variation, Value, and Virtue

Tom Cheesman, Kevin Flanagan, Stephan Thiel, Jan Rybicki, Bob Laramee Orcid Logo, Jonathan Hope, Avraham Roos

Literary and Linguistic Computing [Digital Scholarship in the Humanities], Volume: 32, Issue: 4, Pages: 739 - 760

Swansea University Authors: Tom Cheesman, Kevin Flanagan, Bob Laramee Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.1093/llc/fqw027

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Variation among human translations is usually invisible, little understood, and under-valued. Previous statistical research finds that translations vary most where the source items are most semantically significant or express most ‘attitude’ (affect, evaluation, ideology). Understanding how and why...

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ISSN: 0268-1145 1477-4615
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