The MULTI-TRAD Project: Parallel Corpora and Multidimensional Analysis of Human, Machine and Post-Edited Translation in the Third Social Sector

Maria del Mar Sánchez Ramos, Douglas E. Biber, Cristina Cano Fernández, Irene Fuentes Pérez, Diana González Pastor, Larissa Goulart da Silva, Marcelo Yuri Himoro, Dorothy Kenny, Leida María Mónaco, María Teresa Ortego Antón, Isabel Peñuelas Gil, Cristina Plaza Lara, Verónica Redondo Astilleros, Celia Rico Pérz, Tania Salvador Blázquez, Muhammad Shakir, Franciso J. Vigier Moreno, Manuel Aenlle Curras


Abstract
Domain adaptation remains a major challenge for machine translation, par-ticularly in institutional communica-tion. This paper presents the MULTI-TRAD project , which develops English–Spanish parallel corpora for the Third Social Sector communication. The project integrates three comple-mentary objectives: (i) the compilation of a domain-specific parallel corpus, (ii) the analysis of linguistic variation across human translation (HT), ma-chine translation (MT), and post-edited (PE) texts using Multidimensional Analysis (Biber, 1988), and (iii) the development of a domain-adapted neu-ral machine translation system. In par-ticular, the project investigates how dif-ferent translation processes give rise to distinct functional profiles, related to phenomena such as translationese and post-editese. This paper presents the project design and initial progress.
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2026.eamt-2.9
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Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2)
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June
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2026
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Tilburg, The Netherlands
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Dimitar Shterionov, Eva Vanmassenhove, Mirella De Sisto, Fred Blain, Javad Pourmostafa Roshan Sharami, Lisa Lepp, Chiara Manna, Argentina Anna Rescigno, Alina Karakanta, Ayla Rigouts Terryn, Manuel Lardelli, Natalia Resende, Elena Murgolo, Janiça Hackenbuchner, Anna Zaretskaya, Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Thierry Etchegoyhen, Dagmar Gromann, Rachel Bawden, Barry Haddow, Sara Szoc, Mikel Forcada, Helena Moniz
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Maria del Mar Sánchez Ramos, Douglas E. Biber, Cristina Cano Fernández, Irene Fuentes Pérez, Diana González Pastor, Larissa Goulart da Silva, Marcelo Yuri Himoro, Dorothy Kenny, Leida María Mónaco, María Teresa Ortego Antón, Isabel Peñuelas Gil, Cristina Plaza Lara, Verónica Redondo Astilleros, Celia Rico Pérz, Tania Salvador Blázquez, Muhammad Shakir, Franciso J. Vigier Moreno, and Manuel Aenlle Curras. 2026. The MULTI-TRAD Project: Parallel Corpora and Multidimensional Analysis of Human, Machine and Post-Edited Translation in the Third Social Sector. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 2), pages 19–20, Tilburg, The Netherlands. European Association for Machine Translation.
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