Details

Title

Quality Assessment and Post-Editing in Raising the Efficacy of Legal Machine Translation

Journal title

LINGUISTICA SILESIANA

Yearbook

2025

Volume

vol. 46

Issue

No 1

Authors

Affiliation

Źrałka, Edyta : University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Keywords

Machine Translation ; GT performance ; translation quality assessment ; post-editing ; translation metrics

Divisions of PAS

Nauki Humanistyczne i Społeczne

Coverage

29-50

Publisher

Polska Akademia Nauk • Oddział w Katowicach

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Date

4.12.2025

Type

Article

Identifier

DOI: 10.24425/linsi.2025.155072

Editorial Board

EDITORIAL BOARD

  • Paola Attolino - University of Salerno, Italy
  • Wiesław Banyś - University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • Bogusław Bierwiaczonek - Jan Dlugosz University, Częstochowa, Poland
  • Michael Bilynsky - University of Lviv, Ukraine
  • Krzysztof Bogacki - University of Warsaw, Poland
  • Jan Čermák - Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Bożena Cetnarowska - University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik - John Paul II Catholic University, Lublin, Poland
  • Danuta Gabryś-Barker - University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • Piotr Kakietek - University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • Marcin Krygier - Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
  • Andrzej Łyda - University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland
  • Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld - Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
  • John G. Newman - University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA
  • Jerzy Nykiel - University of Bergen, Norway
  • Marc van Oostendorp - Radbound University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  • Tadeusz Piotrowski - University of Wrocław, Poland
  • Czesława Schatte - Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
  • Piotr Stalmaszczyk - University of Lodz, Poland
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