CRITT Membership

The Center for Research in Translation and Translation Technology (CRITT) consists of a worldwide network of translation researchers whose work is anchored by the CRITT Translation Process Research Database (TPR-DB). The CRITT TPR-DB is a rapidly growing repository of user activity data (UAD) from sessions of text processing (reading, writing, speaking, authoring, paraphrasing, summarizing, translating, interpreting, post-editing, revising, etc.) recorded with keylogger (or speech transcription) and in many cases also with an eyetracker. The CRITT TPR-DB includes a set of scripts and programs to process and visualize the data. It incorporates a public section of UAD, which can be freely downloaded (see license), but also provides private accounts for members.

Researchers and institutions interested in generating and analyzing new studies and new UAD within the CRITT TPR-DB framework may become CRITT members. By signing a license agreement (download from here - license version 4), CRITT members may obtain a private TPR-DB account on a server at Kent State University which can be accessed via the CRITT Web Interface. Studies can be uploaded to the private TPR-DB account, annotated, corrected, analyzed, and downloaded via the CRITT Web Interface. They can also be deleted guaranteeing full privacy. Access may also be provided to a UNIX guest account on the Kent server with a pre-installed Jupyter notebook, direct access to the CRITT TPR-DB, with python and R. To protect the privacy and to enable unfettered development of the data sets, hypothesis generation, assessment of preliminary research results, etc., the private TPR-DB accounts are not accessible to the wider public.

A primary goal of CRITT is to facilitate the dissemination of data and research results in such a way that studies can be reproduced and replicated in different contexts, and so that legacy data of previous studies can be incorporated into or assessed against new data sets in a seamless way. Accordingly, members who use the CRITT Web Interface to process UAD are eligible to make their data publicly available in a consistent and timely manner, together with any publications, documentation, and non-revealing meta-data:

• The structure of the data is consistent with the guidelines on the CRITT website. It is expected that CRITT TPR-DB naming conventions are followed, and the data is complete and processed without errors.

• The data is anonymized, and meta-data is documented according to the instructions given on the CRITT website.

• Publications involving CRITT resources are listed on the CRITT Publications website

CRITT TPR-DB account holders are asked to delete studies that are not supposed to be made public or that are no longer used, such as backup copies, data with excessive errors, trial sessions, etc. A CRITT Web Interface usage license which includes access to a private TPR-DB account can be obtained from the CRITT management.

CRITT is not responsible for any loss of data, accessibility of the servers, or correctness or completeness of analyses.

Usage of the CRITT TPR-DB should be acknowledged in any publications.