DUAL-T User Testing Dataset & DUAL-T Pre- and Post-Task Questionnaires & Questionnaire Results

Dataset

Description

The file This file contains keylogging data from 21 professional literary translators, who translated three short stories in three different workflows. Data was collected between October 2023 and January 2024. Participants Participants have been assigned codes from P01 to P23. Originally, there were 24 participants, however logs for P04a, P09, and P20 had to be excluded from analysis due to technical errors, so they are not present in the spreadsheet. Workflows The workflows were: WF01: Microsoft Word WF02: Trados Studio 2022 WF03: Machine-Translation Postediting Platform (proprietary tool, not available on the market) Participants had access to an internet browser (Chrome) for all three conditions. Source texts The texts used for the experiments were taken from the short story collection One More Thing, by BJ Novak (2014). The three short stories used are: T01: Rome T02: The Beautiful Girl in the Bookstore T03: They Kept Driving Faster and They Outrun the Rain The keylogging data Keylogging data was collected using Inputlog 8.0.0.17 (https://www.inputlog.net/) The data available in the spreadsheet includes: Translation time (hh:mm:ss) Translation time (s) Translation time (m) Total n keystrokes Total n mouse actions Total n pauses Pause duration (s) Mean duration of pauses (s) Pause ratio Time spent inside tool (s) Time spent outside tool (s) Source text n words Source text n characters Target text n words Target text n characters Seconds per source text character
Date made available7 Oct 2024
PublisherZenodo

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