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What's the Difference Between Professional Human and Machine Translation? A Blind Multi-language Study on Domain-specific MT

Fischer, Lukas; Läubli, Samuel (2020). What's the Difference Between Professional Human and Machine Translation? A Blind Multi-language Study on Domain-specific MT. In: 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, Lisboa, Portugal, 3 November 2020 - 5 November 2020. European Association for Machine Translation, 215-224.

Abstract

Machine translation (MT) has been shown to produce a number of errors that require human post-editing, but the extent to which professional human translation (HT) contains such errors has not yet been compared to MT. We compile pre-translated documents in which MT and HT are interleaved, and ask professional translators to flag errors and post-edit these documents in a blind evaluation. We find that the post-editing effort for MT segments is only higher in two out of three language pairs, and that the number of segments with wrong terminology, omissions, and typographical problems is similar in HT.

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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper), refereed, original work
Communities & Collections:06 Faculty of Arts > Institute of Computational Linguistics
Dewey Decimal Classification:000 Computer science, knowledge & systems
410 Linguistics
Language:English
Event End Date:5 November 2020
Deposited On:18 Dec 2020 09:30
Last Modified:10 Jun 2024 03:34
Publisher:European Association for Machine Translation
OA Status:Green
Free access at:Official URL. An embargo period may apply.
Official URL:https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.eamt-1.23/
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