Annex II, section 2 – Data for reliability check
2.3 Simultaneous interpretation
President Obama at the UN General Assembly
The next pages show the results for the data check on the speech by US President Barack Obama to the United Nations General Assembly on 28 September 2015, as interpreted simultaneously by expert professional interpreters. Sentences with differences between the first and the new analysis or with other comments are highlighted in bold in the following list of links. Below the links is an aggregate table comparing the data recorded from both analyses.
• sentence 10: par. 4
• sentence 20: par. 7
• sentence 30: par. 10
• sentence 40: par. 12
• sentence 50: par. 14
• sentence 60: par. 17
• sentence 70: par. 19
• sentence 80: par. 20
• sentence 90: par. 23
• sentence 100: par. 25
• sentence 110: par. 28
• sentence 120: par. 30
• sentence 130: par. 33
• sentence 140: par. 35
• sentence 150: par. 37
• sentence 160: par. 40
• sentence 170: par. 43
• sentence 180: par. 45
• sentence 190: par. 47
• sentence 200: par. 49
• sentence 210: par. 51
• sentence 220: par. 54
← 2.2 Subtitle translation
→ 2.4 Parsing issues
Data for Obama speech at UNGA
(differences in analysis in circled numbers)
Sentence # | Subordinations English 1 English 2 | Target language | Reordering | ± Nestings { } | ± Nestings {{ }} | ± Nestings {{{ }}} | Semantic changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 3 | Mandarin 1 | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| 3 | Mandarin 2 | — | — | — | — | 5 | |
| 20 | 10 | Japanese 1 | 7 | — | — | — | 4 |
| 10 | Japanese 2 | 7 | — | — | — | 4 | |
| 30 | 4 | Russian 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Russian 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 40 | — | Hungarian 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Hungarian 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 50 | 6 | Turkish 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | — | 5 |
| 6 | Turkish 2 | 8 | 3 | 1 | — | 5 | |
| 60 | — | Mandarin 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Mandarin 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 70 | 2 | Japanese 1 | 3 | — | — | — | 2 |
| 2 | Japanese 2 | 3 | — | — | — | 2 | |
| 80 | 1 | Russian 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 1 | Russian 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 90 | 7 | Hungarian 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 8 |
| 7 | Hungarian 2 | 1 | — | — | — | 8 | |
| 100 | ② | Turkish 1 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 |
| ① | Turkish 2 | 1 | 1 | — | — | 1 | |
| 110 | ③ | Mandarin 1 | — | — | — | — | ② |
| ④ | Mandarin 2 | — | — | — | — | ③ | |
| 120 | — | Japanese 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Japanese 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 130 | 3 | Russian 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Russian 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 140 | 6 | Hungarian 1 | — | — | — | — | 3 |
| 6 | Hungarian 2 | — | — | — | — | 3 | |
| 150 | 1 | Turkish 1 | 2 | — | — | — | 2 |
| 1 | Turkish 2 | 2 | — | — | — | 2 | |
| 160 | — | Mandarin 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Mandarin 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 170 | 4 | Japanese 1 | — | 1 | — | — | 3 |
| 4 | Japanese 2 | — | 1 | — | — | 3 | |
| 180 | — | Russian 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Russian 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 190 | 4 | Hungarian 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Hungarian 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 200 | — | Turkish 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Turkish 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 210 | — | Mandarin 1 | — | — | — | — | — |
| — | Mandarin 2 | — | — | — | — | — | |
| 220 | 2 | Japanese 1 | — | — | — | — | 4 |
| 2 | Japanese 2 | — | — | — | — | 4 |