%0 Conference Proceedings %T Translation universals: do they exist? A corpus-based NLP study of convergence and simplification %A Corpas Pastor, Gloria %A Mitkov, Ruslan %A Afzal, Naveed %A Pekar, Viktor %S Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Research Papers %D 2008 %8 oct 21 25 %I Association for Machine Translation in the Americas %C Waikiki, USA %F corpas-pastor-etal-2008-translation %X Convergence and simplification are two of the so-called universals in translation studies. The first one postulates that translated texts tend to be more similar than non-translated texts. The second one postulates that translated texts are simpler, easier-to-understand than non-translated ones. This paper discusses the results of a project which applies NLP techniques over comparable corpora of translated and non-translated texts in Spanish seeking to establish whether these two universals hold Corpas Pastor (2008). %U https://aclanthology.org/2008.amta-papers.5 %P 75-81