Joss Moorkens
Dr
Joss Moorkens is an Associate Professor at the School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies at Dublin City University, a Funded Investigator and Science Lead at the ADAPT Centre, and a member of DCU's Institute of Ethics and Centre for Translation and Textual Studies. He has authored or coauthored over 60 journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers on translation technology, human factors in translation technology and machine translation, translator precarity, and translation ethics.
He is General Coeditor of the journal Translation Spaces with Prof. Dorothy Kenny, and coedited the book 'Translation Quality Assessment: From Principles to Practice' (Springer, 2018), and special issues of Machine Translation (2019), Translation Spaces (2020), and the Journal of Specialised Translation (2024). He is a coauthor of the textbooks 'Translation Tools and Technologies' (Routledge 2023) and 'Automating Translation' (Routledge 2024). He leads the Technology working group (with Prof. Tomáš Svoboda) as a board member of the European Masters in Translation network and sits on the advisory board of the Journal of Specialised Translation.
Book
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Andrew Rothwell; Joss Moorkens; María Fernández-Parra; Joanna Drugan; Frank Austermuehl (2023) Translation Tools and Technologies. Abingdon: Routledge. [Link] |
Book Chapter
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2023 | Ana Guerberof-Arenas; Joss Moorkens (2023) 'Ethics and Machine Translation: The End User Perspective' In: Towards Responsible Machine Translation: Ethical and Legal Considerations in Machine Translation. Berlin : Springer. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2022 | Moorkens, Joss (2022) 'Ethics and Machine Translation' In: Machine translation for everyone: Empowering users in the age of artificial intelligence. Berlin : Language Science Press. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | do Carmo, F.; Moorkens, J. (2020) 'Differentiating editing, post-editing and revision' In: Translation Revision and Post-editing: Industry Practices and Cognitive Processes. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Moorkens, J. (2020) 'Translation in the neoliberal era' In: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Globalization. [Link] | |
| 2019 | Moorkens, J.; Lewis, D. (2019) 'Copyright and the re-use of translation as data' In: The Routledge Handbook of Translation and Technology. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Moorkens, J. (2018) 'Eye tracking as a measure of cognitive effort for post-editing of machine translation' In: EYE TRACKING AND MULTIDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ON TRANSLATION. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2014 | O'Brien, S.; Moorkens, J. (2014) 'Towards intelligent post-editing interfaces' In: Man versus Machine: Proceedings of the XXth FIT World Congress (Vol. I). Berlin, Germany : BDU. | |
| 2013 | Moorkens, J. (2013) 'The Role of Metadata in Translation Memories' In: Pelatt, V(Eds.). Text, Extratext, Metatext and Paratext in Translation. Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Press. |
Edited Book
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2020 | Moorkens, J., Kenny, D., do Carmo, F (Ed.). (2020) Translation Spaces SI on Fair MT. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, | |
| 2019 | Castilho, S., Gaspari, F., Moorkens, J., Popovic, M., Toral, A (Ed.). (2019) Machine Translation SI on Human Factors in NMT. Berlin: Springer, | |
| 2018 | Moorkens, J., Castilho, S., Gaspari, F., Doherty, S (Ed.). (2018) Translation Quality Assessment: From Principles to Practice. Heidelberg: Springer, [Link] | |
| 2024 | (2024) JoSTrans special issue on Translation Automation and Sustainability. Switzerland: Journal of Specialised Translation, [Link] | |
| 2023 | (2023) Proceedings of Translating and the Computer 44. Switzerland: Tradulex, [Link] |
Peer Reviewed Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2020 | Moorkens, Joss; Lewis, Dave (2020) 'Copyright and the re-use of translation as data'. ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF TRANSLATION AND TECHNOLOGY, . | |
| 2018 | Castilho, Sheila; Doherty, Stephen; Gaspari, Federico; Moorkens, Joss (2018) 'Approaches to Human and Machine Translation Quality Assessment'. TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT: FROM PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICE, 1 . [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Doherty, Stephen; Moorkens, Joss; Gaspari, Federico; Castilho, Sheila (2018) 'On Education and Training in Translation Quality Assessment'. TRANSLATION QUALITY ASSESSMENT: FROM PRINCIPLES TO PRACTICE, 1 . [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Moorkens, Joss; O'Brien, Sharon (2017) 'Assessing user interface needs of post-editors of machine translation'. HUMAN ISSUES IN TRANSLATION TECHNOLOGY, . | |
| 2021 | Guerberof Arenas, A.; Moorkens, J.; O’Brien, S. (2021) 'The impact of translation modality on user experience: an eye-tracking study of the Microsoft Word user interface'. Machine Translation, 35 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2021 | Moorkens, Joss; Rocchi, Marta (2021) 'Ethics in the translation industry'. ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF TRANSLATION AND ETHICS, . | |
| 2020 | Moorkens, J. (2020) '“A tiny cog in a large machine”: Digital Taylorism in the translation industry'. Translation Spaces(Netherland), 9 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Lewis, Dave; Moorkens, Joss (2020) 'A Rights-Based Approach to Trustworthy AI in Social Media'. Social Media + Society, 6 (3). [DOI] | |
| 2021 | do Carmo, F.; Shterionov, D.; Moorkens, J.; Wagner, J.; Hossari, M.; Paquin, E.; Schmidtke, D.; Groves, D.; Way, A. (2021) 'A review of the state-of-the-art in automatic post-editing'. Machine Translation, 35 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Kenny, D., Moorkens, J., do Carmo, F. (2020) 'Fair MT: Towards ethical, sustainable machine translation'. TRANSLATION SPACES, 9 (1):1-11. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Moorkens, Joss (2020) 'Comparative satisfaction among freelance and directly-employed Irish-language translators'. TRANSLATION & INTERPRETING-THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TRANSLATION AND INTERPRETING, 12 (1). [DOI] | |
| 2020 | Shterionov, D.; Carmo, F.d.; Moorkens, J.; Hossari, M.; Wagner, J.; Paquin, E.; Schmidtke, D.; Groves, D.; Way, A. (2020) 'A roadmap to neural automatic post-editing: an empirical approach'. Machine Translation, 34 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Sánchez-Gijón, P.; Moorkens, J.; Way, A. (2019) 'Post-editing neural machine translation versus translation memory segments'. Machine Translation, 33 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Moorkens, Joss; Lewis, David (2019) 'Research Questions and a Proposal for the Future Governance of Translation Data'. JOURNAL OF SPECIALISED TRANSLATION, (32). | |
| 2019 | Teixeira, C.S.C.; Moorkens, J.; Turner, D.; Vreeke, J.; Way, A. (2019) 'Creating a multimodal translation tool and testing machine translation integration using touch and voice'. Informatics, 6 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Arenas, A.G.; Moorkens, J. (2019) 'Machine translation and post-editing training as part of a master's programme'. JOURNAL OF SPECIALISED TRANSLATION, . [Link] | |
| 2019 | Castilho, S., Gaspari, F., Moorkens, J., Popovic, M., Toral, A. (2019) 'Editors’ foreword to the special issue on Human Factors in Neural MT'. Machine Translation, 33 (1). [Link] https://doi.org/10.1007/s10590-019-09231-y | |
| 2018 | Moorkens, J.; Toral, A.; Castilho, S.; Way, A. (2018) 'Translators' perceptions of literary post-editing using statistical and neural machine translation'. Translation Spaces(Netherland), 7 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2018 | Castilho, S.; Moorkens, J.; Gaspari, F.; Sennrich, R.; Way, A.; Georgakopoulou, P. (2018) 'Evaluating MT for massive open online courses: A multifaceted comparison between PBSMT and NMT systems'. Machine Translation, 32 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Moorkens, J.; Sasamoto, R. (2017) 'Productivity and lexical pragmatic features in a contemporary CAT environment: An exploratory study in english to Japanese'. Hermes (Denmark), . [Link] | |
| 2018 | Moorkens, J. (2018) 'What to expect from Neural Machine Translation: a practical in-class translation evaluation exercise'. Interpreter and Translator Trainer, 12 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Torres Hostench, O., Moorkens, J., O’Brien, S., Vreeke, J. (2017) 'Testing interaction with a mobile MT postediting app'. Translation and Interpreting, 9 (2):138-150. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Castilho, S., Moorkens, J., Gaspari, F., Calixto, I., Tinsley, J., Way, A. (2017) 'Is Neural Machine Translation the New State-of-the-Art?'. PRAGUE BULLETIN OF MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS, 108 :109-120. [Link] | |
| 2017 | Moorkens, Joss (2017) 'Under pressure: translation in times of austerity'. Perspectives: Studies in Translatology, 25 (3):1-14. [Link] http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2017.1285331 | |
| 2016 | Moorkens, J., O'Brien, S., Vreeke, J. (2016) 'Developing and testing Kanjingo: A mobile app for post-editing'. REVISTA TRADUMÁTICA, 14 :58-66. | |
| 2016 | Moorkens, J; Way, A (2016) 'Comparing Translator Acceptability of TM and SMT Outputs'. Baltic Journal Of Modern Computing, 4 :141-151. | |
| 2015 | Moorkens J.; O’Brien S.; da Silva L.; de Lima Fonseca N.; Alves F. (2015) 'Correlations of perceived post-editing effort with measurements of actual effort'. Machine Translation, :1-18. [DOI] | |
| 2015 | Moorkens, J. (2015) 'Consistency in Translation Memory Corpora: A Mixed Methods Case Study'. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 9 . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2014 | Moorkens, J., Doherty, S., Kenny, D., O'Brien, S. (2014) 'A Virtuous Circle: Laundering Translation Memory Data using Statistical Machine Translation'. PERSPECTIVES - STUDIES IN TRANSLATOLOGY, 22 :291-303. [DOI] | |
| 2012 | Moorkens, J. (2012) 'A mixed-methods study of consistency in Translation Memories'. LOCALISATION FOCUS, 11 :14-26. | |
| 2024 | Dogru, G.; Moorkens, J. (2024) 'Data Augmentation with Translation Memories for Desktop Machine Translation Fine-tuning in 3 Language Pairs'. JOURNAL OF SPECIALISED TRANSLATION, (41):149-178. [Link] https://doi.org/10.26034/cm.jostrans.2024.4716 | |
| 2024 | Sakamoto, A.; van Laar, D.; Moorkens, J.; do Carmo, F. (2024) 'Measuring translators’ quality of working life and their career motivation: Conceptual and methodological aspects'. Translation Spaces(Netherland), . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.23026.sak | |
| 2024 | Fırat, G.; Gough, J.; Moorkens, J. (2024) 'Translators in the platform economy: a decent work perspective'. Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, . [Link] https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2024.2323213 | |
| 2024 | Moorkens, J.; Castilho, S.; Gaspari, F.; Toral, A.; Popović, M. (2024) 'Proposal for a Triple Bottom Line for Translation Automation and Sustainability: An Editorial Position Paper'. JOURNAL OF SPECIALISED TRANSLATION, (41):2-25. [Link] https://doi.org/10.26034/cm.jostrans.2024.4706 | |
| 2024 | Guerberof Arenas, A.; Moorkens, J.; Orrego Carmona, D. (2024) '“A Spanish version of EastEnders”: a reception study of a telenovela subtitled using MT'. JOURNAL OF SPECIALISED TRANSLATION, (41):230-254. [Link] https://doi.org/10.26034/cm.jostrans.2024.4724 | |
| 2023 | Moorkens, J. (2023) '‘I am not a number’: on quantification and algorithmic norms in translation'. Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice, . [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2013 | Doherty, S.; Moorkens, J. (2013) 'Investigating the experience of translation technology labs: Pedagogical implications'. JOURNAL OF SPECIALISED TRANSLATION, . [Link] |
Other Journal
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2012 | Moorkens, J. (2012) 'A Mixed-Methods Study of Consistency in Translation Memories' 11 (1) :14-26. [Link] |
Conference Publication
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2020 | Dowling, M., Castilho, S., Moorkens, J., Lynn, T., Way, A. (2020) European Association for Machine Translation . In: Moorkens, J., Guerberof, A eds. A human evaluation of English-Irish statistical and neural machine translation Lisbon, 20/05/2020- 22/05/2020 [Link] | |
| 2019 | Shterionov, D., do Carmo, F., Moorkens, J., Hossari, M., Paquin, E., Schmidtke, D., Groves, D., Way, A. (2019) MT Summit 2019 When less is more in neural quality estimation of machine translation. an industry case study | |
| 2019 | Guerberof, A., Moorkens, J., O’Brien, S. (2019) MT Summit 2019 A usability study of Japanese machine and human translated user interface strings: preliminary results | |
| 2018 | Sánchez-Gijón, P.; Moorkens, J.; Way, A. (2018) EAMT 2018 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation Perception vs. Acceptability of TM and SMT output: What do translators prefer? [Link] | |
| 2017 | Castilho, Sheila; Gaspari, Federico; Moorkens, Joss; Way, Andy (2017) 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND NEW LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES (EDULEARN17) INTEGRATING MACHINE TRANSLATION INTO MOOCS | |
| 2018 | Toral, A.; Wieling, M.; Castilho, S.; Moorkens, J.; Way, A. (2018) EAMT 2018 - Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation Project pipenovel: Pilot on post-editing novels [Link] | |
| 2017 | Carla Parra EscartÃn; Wessel Reijers; Teresa Lynn; Joss Moorkens; Andy Way; Chao-Hong Liu; (2017) Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing [DOI] | |
| 2017 | Escart\'\in, Carla Parra and Reijers, Wessel and Lynn, Teresa and Moorkens, Joss and Way, Andy and Liu, Chao-Hong (2017) Proceedings of the First ACL Workshop on Ethics in Natural Language Processing Ethical considerations in NLP shared tasks | |
| 2017 | Zapata, J., Castilho, S., Moorkens, J. (2017) MT Summit 2017 Translation Dictation vs. Post-editing with Cloud-based Voice Recognition: A Pilot Experiment | |
| 2017 | Parra Escartín, C., Reijers, W., Lynn, T., Moorkens, J., Way, A., Liu, C. H. (2017) Ethics in NLP Workshop, EACL . In: Margaret Mitchell, Dirk Hovy, Shannon Spruit, Emily M. Bender, Hanna Wallach, and Michael Strube eds. Ethical Considerations in NLP Shared Tasks Valencia, Spain, 03/04/2017- 03/04/2017 [Link] | |
| 2017 | Lewis, D., Moorkens, J., Fatema, K (2017) Ethics in NLP Workshop, EACL . In: Margaret Mitchell, Dirk Hovy, Shannon Spruit, Emily M. Bender, Hanna Wallach, and Michael Strube eds. Integrating the Management of Personal Data Protection and Open Science with Research Ethics Valencia, Spain, 03/04/2017- 03/04/2017 [Link] | |
| 2017 | Castilho, S., Moorkens, J., Gaspari, F., Sennrich, R., Sosoni, V., Georgakopolou, P., Lohar, P., Way, A., Barone, A. V., Gialama, M. (2017) MT Summit 2017 A Comparative Quality Evaluation of PBSMT and NMT using Professional Translators Japan, 18/09/2017- 22/09/2017 [Link] | |
| 2015 | Moorkens, J.; O’Brien, S. (2015) EAMT 2015 - Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation Post-editing evaluations: Trade-offs between novice and professional participants [Link] | |
| 2016 | Reijers, W., Vanmassenhove, E., Lewis, D., Moorkens, J. (2016) ETHI-CA² 2016: ETHics In Corpus collection, Annotation and Application Is experimentation with personal data in need of a global declaration of ethical principles? | |
| 2016 | Moorkens, J., Lewis, D., Reijers, W., Vanmassenhove, E., Way, A. (2016) ETHI-CA² 2016: ETHics In Corpus collection, Annotation and Application Translation Resources and Translator Disempowerment | |
| 2015 | Moorkens, J., O’Brien, S. (2015) 18th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2015) . In: İIknur Durgar El‐Kahlout, Mehmed Özkan, Felipe Sánchez‐Martínez, Gema Ramírez‐Sánchez, Fred Hollowood, Andy Way eds. Post-Editing Evaluations: Trade-offs between Novice and Professional Participants Antalya, Turkey, | |
| 2015 | Moorkens. J., O'Brien, S. (2015) European Association of Machine Translation 18 (EAMT2015) Post-Editing Evaluations: Trade-offs between Novice and Profes-sional Participants Antalya, Turkey, 11/05/2015- 13/05/2015 | |
| 2014 | O'Brien, S., Moorkens, J., Vreeke, J. (2014) European Association of Machine Translation 2014 Kanjingo – A Mobile App for Post-Editing Dubrovnik, Croatia, 16/06/2014- 18/06/2014 | |
| 2013 | Moorkens, J., O'Brien, S. (2013) MT Summit XIV User Attitudes to the Post-Editing Interface Nice, France, 02/09/2013- 06/09/2013 | |
| 2011 | Moorkens, J. (2011) ASLIB Translation and the Computer Translation Memories guarantee consistency: Truth or Fiction? London, 19/11/2011- 20/11/2011 | |
| 2017 | Escartín, C.P.; Reijers, W.; Lynn, T.; Moorkens, J.; Way, A.; Liu, C.H. (2017) EACL 2017 - Ethics in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 1st ACL Workshop Ethical Considerations in NLP Shared Tasks [Link] | |
| 2017 | Lewis, D.; Moorkens, J.; Fatema, K. (2017) EACL 2017 - Ethics in Natural Language Processing, Proceedings of the 1st ACL Workshop Integrating the Management of Personal Data Protection and Open Science with Research Ethics [Link] | |
| 2020 | Dowling, M.; Castilho, S.; Moorkens, J.; Lynn, T.; Way, A. (2020) Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2020 A human evaluation of English-Irish statistical and neural machine translation [Link] | |
| 2017 | Castilho, S., Gaspari, F., Moorkens, J., Way, A. (2017) EDULEARN 2017 - 9th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies INTEGRATING MACHINE TRANSLATION INTO MOOCS Barcelona, Spain, 03/07/2017- 05/07/2017 [DOI] | |
| 2016 | Moorkens, J.; Way, A. (2016) Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, EAMT 2016 Comparing translator acceptability of TM and SMT outputs [Link] |
Conference Contribution
Editorial
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2018 | Moorkens, Joss; Castilho, Sheila; Gaspari, Federico; Doherty, Stephen (2018) Translation Quality Assessment From Principles to Practice Introduction. ED [DOI] |
Invited Seminars
Other Publication
| Year | Publication | |
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| 2020 | Kenny, D.; Moorkens, J.; do Carmo, F. (2020) Fair MT: Towards ethical, sustainable machine translation. [Link] [DOI] | |
| 2019 | Castilho, S.; Gaspari, F.; Moorkens, J.; Popović, M.; Toral, A. (2019) Editors’ foreword to the special issue on human factors in neural machine translation. [Link] [DOI] |
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Research Interests
Translation technology; translation ethics; translation and sociology; machine translation; translation technology user studies for desktop and mobile; usability.