Rage against the AI machine?: Perspectives and attitudes of Spanish scholars outside the language services sector towards neural machine translation, chatbots and post-editing

• Toledo-Báez, Cristina ^[1] ; Marín Navarro, Luis Carlos ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad de Málaga

     Universidad de Málaga

     Málaga, España

     
• Localización: Revista tradumàtica: traducció i tecnologies de la informació i la comunicació, ISSN-e 1578-7559, Nº. 23, 2025 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Tecnologies de la traducció per a professionals dins i fora de les indústries de la llengua)
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5565/rev/tradumatica.510
• Títulos paralelos:
  • ¿Resistencia frente a la IA? Perspectivas y actitudes de los académicos españoles ajenos al sector de los servicios lingüísticos hacia la traducción automática neuronal, los chatbots y la posedición
  • Resistència davant de la IA? Perspectives i actituds dels acadèmics espanyols aliens al sector dels serveis lingüístics cap a la traducció automàtica neuronal, els xatbots i la postedició
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  • español

    Mediante una combinación de análisis cuantitativo y cualitativo, este artículo presenta los resultados del cuestionario elaborado para el proyecto [anonimizado], con el objetivo de recoger las perspectivas y actitudes de 182 académicos españoles fuera del sector de los servicios lingüísticos respecto a la traducción automática neuronal, los chatbots y la posedición.

  • català

    Mitjançant una combinació d’anàlisi quantitativa i qualitativa, aquest article presenta els resultats del qüestionari elaborat per al projecte [anonimitzat], amb l’objectiu de recollir les perspectives i actituds de 182 acadèmics espanyols fora del sector dels serveis lingüístics envers la traducció automàtica neuronal, els xatbots i la postedició.

  • English

    Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative analysis, this article presents the findings of the questionnaire developed for the GAMETRAPP project, with a focus on capturing the perspectives and attitudes of 182 Spanish scholars outside the language services sector regarding neural machine translation, chatbots and post-editing.

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