Table 4.

Posteditor examples of top three error categories.

Error category	Quotes/examples
Word sense	“The literal meaning changes when translated into Chinese (eg, lost power/electricity is translated as lost ‘energy’)”
Word order	“‘...when...can’t...’ type of sentence doesn’t have same structure in Chinese. The order of the words change in Chinese and English in many situations”
Missing word	“Whenever there is the word ‘person’ we should mention ‘this’ or ‘that’ person, otherwise it is not clear who are we talking about in the sentence.”