Translation Quality Assessment: Assessing Thematic Similarity between Original Text and its Translation using LDA Topic Model - Couverture souple

Karlova-Bourbonus, Natali

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ISBN 10 : 3639498941 ISBN 13 : 9783639498943

Editeur : AV Akademikerverlag, 2014

Synopsis

Translation criticism lacks methods with which to efficiently measure the thematic similarity between a source text and its translation. To address this problem, we focused on a method of automatically assessing such thematic similarity. We proposed a bag-of-words-based LDA topic model to uncover latent topics in a document and used the cosine similarity measure to compute the similarity between topics. We hypothesized that the similarity between the topics of an original text and its translation reflects the level of thematic similarity between them. To test the hypothesis, we applied the proposed LDA-cosine method to a novel by F. M. Dostoevsky, “The Brothers Karamazov” (1880), and its English translation by Constance Garnett (1912). Two texts were assumed to be thematically similar to a high degree. We used the results of the method´s application to test this assumption.

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À propos de l'auteur

Natali Karlova-Bourbonus is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Applied Linguistics at the University of Giessen and writes her dissertation on automatic detection of contradictions in texts. She received her B.A. in German Literature from the University of Constance and M.A. in Computational Linguistics from the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AV Akademikerverlag
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3639498941
• ISBN 13: 9783639498943
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
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• Personne responsable: non disponible