Dr Özlem Temizöz

I began my research career in 2007 with my MA studies as part of the PhD programme led by Prof. Anthony Pym at Universitat Rovira i Virgili. Since then, I have been interested in the interplay between translation and technology. More specifically, I have been interested in how technology affects the translation process, the translated product and the user(s). Being also inspired by the context where I perform translation, (with the language-pair English-Turkish, Turkish being a "language of limited diffusion"), initially, I was involved in empirical research that explores the directionality in the translation process (whether the translation is performed from L2 into L1 or from L1 into L2). I used eye-tracking to measure the cognitive effort spent by the translators while translating in different directions.

Later in my PhD studies, I became interested in machine translation postediting and a relatively unexplored aspect of the real market workflow where professional posteditors cooperate with subject-matter experts in the production and revision of postedited texts. I explored the impact of various combinations in these workflows on the productivity and the quality of the postediting. While analyzing data of this study, I realized that penalizing (counting) or not penalizing (not counting) the recurring errors in the postedited products changed the quality assessment results in a statistically significant way, and I delved into this topic and conducted further research on this phenomenon.

Currently, I am involved in research exploring both translation/interpreting technologies (the technologies themselves; i.e. their inherent characteristics) and the impact of their use on the process/product and the user(s) of these services.