Creativity in translation

This article presents the results of a study involving translation short story by Kurt Vonnegut from English to Catalan and Dutch using three modalities: machine-translation (MT), post-editing (PE) without aid (HT). Our aim is explore creativity, understood involve novelty acceptability, quantitative perspective. The show that HT has highest creativity score, followed PE, lastly, MT, this unanimous all reviewers. A neural MT system trained on literary data does not currently have necessary capabilities for creative translation; it renders literal solutions problems. More importantly, post-edit raw output constrains translators, resulting in poorer often fit publication, according experts.