THE NOTION OF MACHINE TRANSLATIONNESS IN MT

Abstract

In this article we explain the notion of machine translationness and its relevance in machine translation. Machine translationness refers to the linguistic phenomena that reveals a text to be translated by a machine. This notion is relevant for machine translation evaluation, post-editing,confirmation of dishonest use of manchine translation engines, spam detection and information search.The article explains the empirical study we performed in order to elaborate a machine translationness typology. We also analyse the perception of machine translationness types by a large group of informants with varied learning levels, ages, etc. The experiment provided us with data about the influence of language-pairs and the methodology of the translation engine in machine-translationness generation. Finally, we suggest a few methodological hints about how machine translationnes can be detected automatically and objectively.