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Detecting Language Features of ‘Machine-Translationese’ through Machine Learning: Original Chinese News Text vs. Machine-Translated Chinese News Text

June 13, 2024

Conference presentation, International Conference on Chinese News Discourse in the Digital Era, University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Abstract:
This presentation investigates the linguistic features of “Machine-Translationese” (MTese) in English-to-Chinese machine-translated news texts. Through machine learning approaches, we identify and quantify distinctive characteristics that differentiate machine-translated Chinese news texts from originally authored Chinese news texts. Our methodology employs clustering techniques to visualize these differentiating features, revealing systematic patterns in MTese.