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Are interpreters better respeakers? An exploratory study on respeaking competences
Agnieszka Szarkowska & Łukasz Dutka
Agnieszka Chmiel, Agnieszka Lijewska, Krzysztof Krejtz, Krzysztof Marasek & Łukasz Brocki
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Respeaking in Poland
Television – No live subtitling on TV
– Semi-live subtitling with QWERTY
Live events – Conferences
–Online interlingual respeaking for canonisation
SR software – Newton Dictate (Newton Technologies)
–Magic Scribe (Unikkon Integral)
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Respeaking project (2014-2017)
"Respeaking – process, competences, quality"
Goal: to examine the competences of respeakers
Research question: Are interpreters better respeakers?
Three groups of participants – Interpreters and interpreting trainees
– Translators and translation trainees
–Control group (no interpreting/translation background)
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Respeaking training
No professional respeakers to test
Respeaking training Four two-day workshops
(February - May 2015)
Pablo Romero Fresco, Carlo Eugeni, Juan Martinez
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Tests in the project
Working memory capacity tests –Digit Span
– Listening Span
–Reading Span
Paraphrasing tests
Proof-reading test
Respeaking tests + semi-structured interview
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Respeaking test
Intralingual respeaking (Polish to Polish) –Four 5-minute clips in randomised order
–Variables: slow/fast, one speaker/many speakers
–Genres: speech, chat shows, news
Interlingual respeaking (English to Polish) –Slow one-speaker speech
(President Obama in Warsaw)
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Participants
58 participants –23 translators
–23 interpreters
–12 controls
Demographic data of the sample –Mean age 27.48 (SD 5.71)
–51 women, 7 men
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Measurements
Screenrecording
Eyetracking
EEG (Emotiv EPOC)
Self-report on cognitive load
NER
WER
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Preliminary results
Participant sample: N=42
Working memory capacity
Self-reported cognitive load
EEG cognitive load
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Working memory capacity
Group Listening Span Reading
Span
Digit Span
(forward)
Digit Span
(backward)
Interpreters 56.55 36.77 6.22 5.50
Translators 54.35 36.35 6.17 5.58
Controls 49.57 35.71 6.28 5.42
N=42, ANOVA, p<.05
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Self-reported cognitive load
MENTAL DEMAND How mentally demanding was the task? Extremely undemanding to extremely demanding
(7-point scale)
TEMPORAL DEMAND
How hurried or rushed was the task? Extremely unrushed to extremely rushed (7-point scale)
FRUSTRATION Describe your level of irritation, stress or annoyance while respeaking this clip.
Extremely low to extremely high (7-point scale)
DIFFICULTY LEVEL How easy or difficult was the task? Extremely easy to extremely
difficult to understand (7-point scale)
CONCENTRATION/ ENGAGEMENT
To what extent could you concentrate on the task (i.e. without thinking about other things)?
Not at all to all of the time (7-point scale) adapted from
Kruger et al. (2014)
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Difficulty level
7-point scale:
1 – very difficult
7 – very easy
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Mental demand
7-point scale:
1 – very undemanding
7 – extremely demanding
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Frustration
7-point scale:
1 – very low
7 – very high
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Concentration – self-report vs. EEG
Self-report
(1-7 scale) EEG
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Preliminary respeaking data sample
Participants –5 translators & 5 interpreters
Video –One speaker
– Slow speech
NER
WER
BLEU
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Accuracy rate in NERstar
ACCURACY RATE (NER value)
Translators 93.29
Interpreters 94.39
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Edition vs. recognition errors
Edition errors Recognition errors
Translators 27.66 72.34
Interpreters 28.75 69.33
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Reduction
Reduction
Translators 12.13
Interpreters 10.49
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Word error rate (WER)
Reference text: transcription from respeakers
Analysed text: SR output
Group WER
Translators 18.93
Interpreters 14.43
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BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy)
Machine translation measure
Reference text: transcription of the original speaker
Analysed text: transcription from respeakers
Group BLEU RATE
Translators 56.11
Interpreters 55.15
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So…?
So far… no conclusive evidence that interpreters are better respeakers
Ongoing study – more data to come
What next? –Correlate quality in respeaking with other measures:
what makes a good respeaker?
– Implications for respeaker training
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Acknowledgements
This study was supported with the grant no. 2013/11/B/HS2/02762
from the National Science Centre for the years 2014-2017
KRZYSZTOF KREJTZ
ŁUKASZ BROCKI AGNIESZKA LIJEWSKA
AGNIESZKA CHMIEL
KRZYSZTOF MARASEK
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www.facebook.com/RespeakingProject
www.avt.ils.uw.edu.pl