Post­editing Experiments with Mt for a Controlled Language

This paper aims to establish whether a new controlled language (CL) for emergency­related texts could facilitate both human and machine translation. To achieve this, an experiment involving an MT engine and human translators and post­editors was conduced. In order to estimate whether the CL pre­editing has an impact on human and machine translation, the time to manually translate, the time to post­edit and the edit distance between the original and the simplified texts were measured. The results of the experiment confirm the hypothesis.