What Influences the Features of Post-Editese? A Preliminary Study

While a number of studies have shown evidence of translationese phenomena, that is, statistical differences between original texts and translated texts This paper reports a preliminary study aimed at identifying the presence of post-editese features in machine-translated post-edited texts and at understanding how they differ from translationese features. We test the influence of factors such as post-editing (PE) levels (full vs. light), translation proficiency (professionals vs. students) and text domain (news vs. literary). Results show evidence of post-editese features, especially in light PE texts and in certain domains.