The impact of traditional and interactive post-editing on Machine Translation User Experience, quality, and productivity

Abstract This paper presents a user study with 15 professional translators in the English-Spanish combination. We present concept of Machine Translation User Experience (MTUX) and compare effects traditional post-editing (TPE) interactive (IPE) on MTUX, translation quality productivity. Results suggest that prefer IPE to TPE because they are control interaction this new form translator-computer feel more empowered their Translation. Productivity results also may be an interesting alternative TPE, given fact worked faster even though had no experience machine modality, but were already used TPE.