post-editorn.
/ˌpəʊstˈɛdᵻtə/, U.S. /ˌpoʊstˈɛdədər/ A person who edits a text, usually a translation, that has been produced or processed by a machine.
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1953 A. D. Booth & 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.
1960 K. M. Delavenay & E. 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.
1966 D. 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.
1993 Byte Jan. 162/3 In most situations, the posteditor, who is ordinarily a professional translator, thoroughly reviews the output and makes any necessary changes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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