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Comparing translator acceptability of TM and SMT outputs

Moorkens, Joss orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-4864-5986 and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2016) Comparing translator acceptability of TM and SMT outputs. Baltic J. Modern Computing, 4 (2). pp. 141-151. ISSN 2255-8942

Abstract
This paper reports on an initial study that aims to understand whether the acceptability of translation memory (TM) among translators when contrasted with machine translation (MT) unacceptability is based on users’ ability to optimise precision in match suggestions. Seven translators were asked to rate whether 60 English-German translated segments were a usable basis for a good target translation. 30 segments were from a domain-appropriate TM without a quality threshold being set, and 30 segments were translated by a general domain statistical MT system. Participants found the MT output more useful on average, with only TM fuzzy matches of over 90% considered more useful. This result suggests that, were the MT community able to provide an accurate quality threshold to users, they would consider MT to be the more useful technology.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Human Evaluation; Translation Memory; Confidence Estimation
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Initiatives and Centres > ADAPT
Publisher:Latvijas Universitate
Official URL:https://www.bjmc.lu.lv/fileadmin/user_upload/lu_po...
Copyright Information:© 2016 Latvijas Universitate
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology, funded under the SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106) and co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund
ID Code:23308
Deposited On:16 May 2019 13:03 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 16 May 2019 13:03
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