Domain specific MT in use

Lene Offersgaard; Claus Povlsen; Lisbeth Kjeldgaard Almsten; Bente Maegaard

Domain specific MT in use

Lene Offersgaard, Claus Povlsen, Lisbeth Kjeldgaard Almsten, Bente Maegaard

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Abstract

The paper focuses on domain specific use of MT with a special focus on SMT in the workflow of a Language Service Provider (LSP). We report on the feedback of post-editors using fluency/adequacy evaluation and the evaluation metric ’Usability’, understood in this context as where users on a three point scale evaluate the sentence from the point of view of the post-editor. The post-editor profile defined by the LSP is based on the experiences of introducing MT in the LSP workflow. The relation between the Translation Edit Rate (TER) scores and “Usability” scores is tested. We find TER a candidate for an automatic metric simulating the post-editors’ usability judgements. LSP tests show 67% saved time in post-editing for the tested domain. Finally, the use of weighted sub-domain phrase tables in a SMT system is shown to improve translation quality.

Translated title of the contribution	Automatisk oversættelse af domænesprog
Original language	English
Title of host publication	EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
Editors	John Hutchins, Walther v.Hahn
Number of pages	10
Publisher	HITEC e.V, Vogt-Kölln Strasse 30, Hamburg, Germany
Publication date	2008
Pages	pp.150-159
ISBN (Print)	978-3-00-025770-4
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation - Hamburg, Germany Duration: 22 Sep 2008 → 23 Sep 2008 Conference number: 12

Conference

Conference	EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
Number	12
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Hamburg
Period	22/09/2008 → 23/09/2008

Keywords

Faculty of Humanities
Machine Translation
Translation
evaluation methods in language technology

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Domain specific MT in use. / Offersgaard, Lene; Povlsen, Claus; Almsten, Lisbeth Kjeldgaard; Maegaard, Bente.

EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. ed. / John Hutchins; Walther v.Hahn. HITEC e.V, Vogt-Kölln Strasse 30, Hamburg, Germany, 2008. p. pp.150-159.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review

Offersgaard, L, Povlsen, C, Almsten, LK & Maegaard, B 2008, Domain specific MT in use. in J Hutchins & W v.Hahn (eds), EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation. HITEC e.V, Vogt-Kölln Strasse 30, Hamburg, Germany, pp. pp.150-159, EAMT 2008: 12th annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Hamburg, Germany, 22/09/2008.

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