The great mystery of the (almost) invisible translator : stylometry in translation

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title:	The great mystery of the (almost) invisible translator : stylometry in translation
author:	Rybicki Jan
editor:	Oakes Michael P., Ji Meng
book title:	Quantitative methods in corpus-based translation studies : a practical guide to descriptive translation research
date of publication :	2012
place of publication : name of publisher:	Amsterdam Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company
pages:	231-248
ISBN:	978-90-272-0356-4 978-90-272-7478-6
series:	Studies in Corpus Linguistics, ISSN 1388-0373; vol. 51
language:	English
book language:	English
abstract in English:	Machine-learning stylometric distance methods based on most-frequent-word frequencies are well-accepted and successful in authoship attribution. This study investigates the results of one of these methods, Burrows's Delta, when applied to translations. Basing the empirical results on a number of corpora of literary translations, it shows that, except for some few highly adaptative translations, Delta usually fails to identify the translator and identifies the author of the original instead.
number of pulisher's sheets:	1
affiliation:	Wydział Filologiczny : Instytut Filologii Angielskiej
type:	chapter
subtype:	academic paper

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