Design and Statistics in Quantitative Translation (Process) Research

Balling, Laura Winther; Hvelplund, Kristian Tangsgaard

doi:10.1075/ts.4.1.08bal

Article published In: Translation as a cognitive activity:
Edited by Fabio Alves, Amparo Hurtado Albir and Isabel Lacruz
[Translation Spaces 4:1] 2015
► pp. 170–187

Get fulltext from our e-platform

Download PDF

Design and Statistics in Quantitative Translation (Process) Research

Laura Winther Balling

Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund

Published online: 22 October 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.4.1.08bal

References (16)

Baayen, R. Harald. 2008. Analyzing Linguistic Data. A Practical Introduction to Statistics Using R. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Balling, Laura W. 2008. “A Brief Introduction to Regression Designs and Mixed-effects Modelling by a Recent Convert.” Copenhagen Studies in Language 361: 175–192.

Balling, Laura W., Kristian T. Hvelplund, and Annette C. Sjørup. 2014. “Evidence of Parallel Processing during Translation.” Meta 591: 234–259.

Bordens, Kenneth S., and Bruce B. Abbott. 2005. Research and Design Methods. A Process Approach. 6th edition. Boston: McGraw Hill.

Carl, Michael, and Matthias Buch-Kromann. 2010. “Correlating Translation Product and Translation Process Data of Professional and Student Translators.” In Proceedings of the 14th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation , Saint-Raphaël, 27–28 May 2010.

Field, Andy, Jeremy Miles, and Zoë Field. 2012. Discovering Statistics Using R. London: Sage.

Gries, Stefan T. 2013. Statistics for Linguistics with R. A Practical Introduction. 2nd edition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.

Harrell, Frank E. Jr. 2001. Regression Modelling Strategies with Applications to Linear Models, Logistic Regression, and Survival Analysis. New York: Springer.

Holm, Sture. 1979. “A Simple Sequentially Rejective Multiple Test Procedure.” Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 61: 65–70.

Hvelplund, Kristian T. 2014. “Eye Tracking and the Translation Process: Reflections on the Analysis and Interpretation of Eye Tracking Data.” MonTI Special issue 1: Minding Translation, Con la traducción en mente, edited by Ricardo Muñoz Martín, 201–223.

Jensen, Kristian T. Hvelplund, Annette C. Sjørup, and Laura W. Balling. 2009. “Effects of L1 syntax on L2 translation.” Copenhagen Studies in Language 381: 319–336.

Johnson, Keith. 2008. Quantitative Methods in Linguistics. Oxford: Blackwell.

Papineni, Kishore, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, and Wei-Jing Zhu. 2002. “BLEU: A Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation.” In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) , 311–318. Philadelphia, USA.

Rice, William R. 1989. “Analyzing Tables of Statistical Tests.” Evolution 431: 223–225.

Smith, Nathaniel J., and Roger Levy. 2013. “The Effect of Word Predictability on Reading Time is Logarithmic.” Cognition 1281: 302–319.

Vasishth, Shravan, and Michael Broe. 2011. The Foundations of Statistics: A Simulation-based Approach. Heidelberg: Springer.

Cited by (16)

Cited by 16 other publications

Order by:

Martín, Ricardo Muñoz, Sanjun Sun, Zhiqiang Du & Sara Puerini

2025. Keylogging. In Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 10], ► pp. 157 ff.

Walker, Callum, Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund & Victoria Lei

2025. Screen eyetracking. In Research Methods in Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies [Research Methods in Applied Linguistics, 10], ► pp. 213 ff.

ROJO LÓPEZ, ANA MARÍA, María Inmaculada Vicente López & Kristian Tangsgaard Hvelplund

2024. Measuring cognitive effort in post-editing: an eye-tracking study comparing professional and student translators. Tradumàtica tecnologies de la traducció :22 ► pp. 112 ff.

Han, Chao, Xiaolei Lu & Peixin Zhang

2023. Use of statistical methods in translation and interpreting research. Target. International Journal of Translation Studies 35:4 ► pp. 483 ff.

Silva, Breno B., David Orrego-Carmona & Agnieszka Szarkowska

2022. Using linear mixed models to analyze data from eye-tracking research on subtitling. Translation Spaces 11:1 ► pp. 60 ff.

Tan, Hua

2022. Quantitative research methods in translation and interpreting studies. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 58:1 ► pp. 145 ff.

Walker, Callum

2021. Investigating how we read translations. Cognitive Linguistic Studies 8:2 ► pp. 482 ff.

Walker, Callum

2021. Eye-Tracking the Reader Experience. In An Eye-Tracking Study of Equivalent Effect in Translation, ► pp. 215 ff.

Hatzidaki, Anna

2019. Using experimental approaches to study translation. Translation, Cognition & Behavior 2:1 ► pp. 35 ff.

Balling, Laura Winther

2018. No Effect of Writing Advice on Reading Comprehension. Journal of Technical Writing and Communication 48:1 ► pp. 104 ff.

Doherty, Stephen

2018. Analysing variable relationships and time-course data in eye-tracking studies of translation processes and products. In Eye tracking and multidisciplinary studies on translation [Benjamins Translation Library, 143], ► pp. 71 ff.

Doherty, Stephen

2021. Introduction. Translation, Cognition & Behavior 4:2 ► pp. 244 ff.

Petersen, Jan Heegård

2018. Phonological Individuation in a Former Danish Settlement in South Dakota, USA. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 30:2 ► pp. 97 ff.

Hvelplund, Kristian Tangsgaard

2016. Cognitive efficiency in translation. In Reembedding Translation Process Research [Benjamins Translation Library, 128], ► pp. 149 ff.

Hvelplund, Kristian Tangsgaard

2017. Four fundamental types of reading during translation. In Translation in Transition [Benjamins Translation Library, 133], ► pp. 55 ff.

Muñoz Martín, Ricardo

2016. Reembedding translation process research. An introduction. In Reembedding Translation Process Research [Benjamins Translation Library, 128], ► pp. 1 ff.

This list is based on CrossRef data as of 6 december 2025. Please note that it may not be complete. Sources presented here have been supplied by the respective publishers. Any errors therein should be reported to them.