Translation Memory (TM) is a key technology in the translation industry, its success based on several assumptions: that it saves time, provides cost savings, and enhances consistency. Our research tests the assumption of consistency in TMs. We examine English/German and English/Japanese TM data from two commercial companies with a view to measuring the levels of consistency (or inconsistency) b...

The Quantum Decision Theory (QDT) developed recently by the authors is applied to clarify the role of risk and uncertainty in decision making and in particular in relation to the phenomenon of dynamic inconsistency. By formulating this notion in precise mathematical terms, we distinguish three types of inconsistency: time inconsistency, planning paradox, and inconsistency occurring in some disc...

Experimental choice data from 881 subjects based on 40 time-tradeoff items and 32 risky choice items reveal that most subjects are time-inconsistent and most violate the axioms of expected utility theory. These inconsistencies cannot be explained by well-known theories of behavioral inconsistency, such as hyperbolic discounting and cumulative prospect theory. Aggregating expected payoffs and th...