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post-ˈeditor
[post- A. 1 b.]
Someone who edits text that has been produced or processed by a machine.
1953A. D. & K. H. V. Booth Automatic Digital Calculators xvii. 206 Reiffler suggests the use of a pre-editor who need not know the (T.L.) at all but who, reading his own language (our F.L.), eliminates from the text all such alternatives... In the same way a post-editor might be used to turn the translation into acceptable T.L. 1960E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Transl. 121 For each Russian polysemantic word the machine has given alternative translations; the one selected by the post-editor has been given first. 1966D. G. Hays in Automatic Transl. of Lang. (NATO Summer School, Venice, 1962) 146 Before text reaches the posteditor, it has been put through automatic dictionary lookup and automatic sentence-structure determination.
So post-edit v. trans., to edit in such circumstances; post-ˈediting vbl. n.
1957Year's Work Eng. Stud. 1955 41/2 His suggestions for mechanized translation involve a much heavier reliance upon ‘post-editing’ than experts at present feel they need to assume. 1960E. Delavenay Introd. Machine Transl. iii. 29 He postulated the necessity both for pre-editing texts before translation and for post-editing them when translated. 1962Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Apr. 268/3 The machine output will have to be ‘post-edited’, before submission of the finished product to the readers. 1971Computers & Humanities VI. 45 A printer's computer tape would probably require some post-editing. |