POROVNANIE STROJOVÉHO, POSTEDITOVANÉHO A ĽUDSKÉHO PREKLADU TECHNICKEJ DOKUMENTÁCIE ZO SLOVENČINY DO NEMČINY

The article emphasizes the possibilities of machine translation and post-editing in relation to specialised, technical texts. We compare machine translation, post-edited machine translation and reference human translation of technical documentation translated from Slovak to German. The main focus dwells on lexical similarity of machine translation with regard to the reference human translation, as well as on the reasons for differences between the two by means of TER and HTER scores. We assume that the reference human translation and post-edited machine translation will show the same or almost the same error rate. We pay special attention to error rates between 0 and 10%, where there might have been differences between the reference human translation and the machine translation but the post-editor marked them as correct, when they met their communicative function.