Interpreting accuracy revisted: A refined approach to interpreting performance analysis. Data set

This data set contains data on interpreting accuracy of ten professional and ten student interpreters. Information on the level of expertise is contained in the filename: "student" refers to a student's rendition, "professional" to a rendition by a professional interpreting. The data set further includes information on:

unit: The meaning unit in the source text (anonymized for rata protection resons)

identfier: a number from 1 to 488 to identify each unit

sentence: The full sentence taht contains the unit (anynomized for data protection reasons)

rating: whether the unit was correctly (1) rendered, or incorrectly/missing (0),

category: information about the category of the unit

weighing: weighing assigned to each category

score: score obtained for the unit

For data protection reasons and in compliance with the declaration of Helsinki, the data set does not contain information about the source text or the rendition as a transcript.

The data set is primarily used as an example data set to assess interpreting accuracy. Please also refer to the following publication:

Gieshoff, A. C., & Albl-Mikasa, M. (2022). Interpreting accuracy revisited: a refined approach to interpreting performance analysis. Perspectives, 32(2), 210–228. https://doi.org/10.1080/0907676X.2022.2088296

The data set can be re-analysed using the following R-script: https://github.com/ac-gieshoff/interpreting-accuracy