1. Eye-tracking and Cognitive Load in Translation Sharon O’Brien School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies Dublin City University

2. Background Translators and Technology –Translation Memory Tools –Terminology Management Tools –Machine Translation (+ Controlled Authoring Tools) –Localisation Tools

3. The Question When a translator is working with a translation memory tool, do different “match types” place different cognitive loads on the translator? –Is it justifiable to pay a translator different rates for different match types? –Can eye-tracking help in answering these questions?

4. Typical Translation Memory Setup

5. A “Machine Translation” Match

6. An “Exact Match”

7. Hypothesis-Generating Study Proposed Analysis of: –Gaze Replay with Translator retrospective commentary –Hotspots –Pupil Dilation per Match Type –Processing Speed