Teaching machine translation and post-editing

Abstract

This article reflects on the current training in machine translation and post-editing that students enrolled in the Master Translation at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics are receiving by discussing the findings of three recent studies. Especially at the master’s level, machine translation and post-editing are becoming increasingly important in translator training curricula with an eye to changing workflows in the language industry. Yet one question that remains is which specific skills, competences and knowledge future translators need, and to what degree an understanding of the computational side of machine translation is required.