Studies On Interpretation Quality Assessment Methods

The dissertation aims at researches on interpretation quality assessment methods. On the basis of analysis of previous studies, it advances that interpretation quality is mainly decided by three criteria, which are original speech, delivery and user. Therefore, the dissertation puts forward that quality of interpretation performances should be assessed from three aspects, which are speech-oriented aspect, delivery-oriented aspect and user-oriented aspect. After considering the influence of each criterion on assessment, the dissertation uses different methods to assess interpretation quality.Speech-oriented aspect requires an interpretation performance should be faithful to original speech. In order to obtain faithfulness of interpretation performances, after the introduction of weight and fuzzy set, the dissertation advances a method to calculate faithfulness and establishes a mathematical model, which can produce quantitative assessment and enhance exactness and reliability of interpretation faithfulness assessment.Delivery-oriented aspect researches how to judge if a performance is comprehensible by quantitative methods. According to the previous studies, the dissertation assesses an interpretation from two sub-aspects, which are linguistic output quality assessment and presentation quality assessment. On the basis of that, seven criteria are given. Fuzzy mathematics is used to calculate the grade of a performance's delivery. User-oriented aspect requires interpreters should bear users' needs in mind when performing interpretation. The dissertation conducts a questionnaire survey to obtain users' evaluations for an interpretation performance and calculates users' contentment by statistical methods.Assessing an interpretation performance from the above aspects can produce three figures. Giving weights to these three aspects, the evaluator can obtain the general assessment for a performance. These three aspects are correlated closely, which makes up of an assessment system for interpretation quality.