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Comparing machine translation and human translation: A case study
Linköping University, Department of Computer and Information Science, Human-Centered systems. Linköping University, Faculty of Science & Engineering. (NLPLab, HCS)
2017 (English)In: RANLP 2017 The First Workshop on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT) Proceedings of the Workshop, September 7th, 2017 / [ed] Irina Temnikova, Constantin Orasan, Gloria Corpas and Stephan Vogel, Shoumen, Bulgaria: Association for Computational Linguistics , 2017, p. 21-28Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

As machine translation technology improves comparisons to human performance are often made in quite general and exaggerated terms. Thus, it is important to be able to account for differences accurately. This paper reports a simple, descriptive scheme for comparing translations and applies it to two translations of a British opinion article published in March, 2017. One is a human translation (HT) into Swedish, and the other a machine translation (MT). While the comparison is limited to one text, the results are indicative of current limitations in MT.

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Shoumen, Bulgaria: Association for Computational Linguistics , 2017. p. 21-28
Keywords [en]
machine translation, translation evaluation, translation procedure
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Language Technology (Computational Linguistics)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-141902OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-141902DiVA, id: diva2:1148856
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RANLP 2017: The First Workshop on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT)
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Swedish Research CouncilAvailable from: 2017-10-12 Created: 2017-10-12 Last updated: 2019-05-09Bibliographically approved

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