Table 2 Statistics of error identification and correction rate in post-editing.

From: Performance and perception: machine translation post-editing in Chinese-English news translation by novice translators

Error type

Identification rate (%)

Correction rate (%)

Lexical error

61.29

19.35

Grammatical error

19.35

16.13

Syntactic error

38.71

29.03

Style error

12.90

6.45