Kordoni, Valia, van den Bosch, Antal ORCID: 0000-0003-2493-656X, Kermanidis, Katia Lida ORCID: 0000-0002-3270-5078, Sosoni, Vilelmini ORCID: 0000-0002-9583-4651, Cholakov, Kostadin, Hendrickx, Iris, Huck, Matthias and Way, Andy ORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2016) Enhancing access to online education: quality machine translation of MOOC content. In: Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia. ISBN 978-2-9517408-9-1
Abstract
The present work is an overview of the TraMOOC (Translation for Massive Open Online Courses) research and innovation project, a
machine translation approach for online educational content. More specifically, videolectures, assignments, and MOOC forum text is
automatically translated from English into eleven European and BRIC languages. Unlike previous approaches to machine translation,
the output quality in TraMOOC relies on a multimodal evaluation schema that involves crowdsourcing, error type markup, an error
taxonomy for translation model comparison, and implicit evaluation via text mining, i.e. entity recognition and its performance
comparison between the source and the translated text, and sentiment analysis on the students' forum posts. Finally, the evaluation
output will result in more and better quality in-domain parallel data that will be fed back to the translation engine for higher quality
output. The translation service will be incorporated into the Iversity MOOC platform and into the VideoLectures.net digital library
portal
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Event Type: | Conference |
Refereed: | Yes |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | MOOCs;, statistical machine translation; crowdsourcing; CrowdFlower; entity recognition; sentiment analysis |
Subjects: | Computer Science > Machine translating Social Sciences > Distance education Social Sciences > Educational technology |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT |
Published in: | Calzolari, Nicoletta, Choukri, Khalid, Declerck, Thierry and Goggi, Sara, (eds.) Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016). . European Language Resources Association (ELRA). ISBN 978-2-9517408-9-1 |
Publisher: | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
Official URL: | http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2016/pdf/... |
Copyright Information: | © 2016 ELRA |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License |
Funders: | European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No 644333, ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University |
ID Code: | 23229 |
Deposited On: | 02 May 2019 11:15 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 04 Feb 2020 14:30 |
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