Title
Morpho-syntactic information for automatic error analysis of statistical machine translation output
Abstract
Evaluation of machine translation output is an important but difficult task. Over the last years, a variety of automatic evaluation measures have been studied, some of them like Word Error Rate (WER), Position Independent Word Error Rate (PER) and BLEU and NIST scores have become widely used tools for comparing different systems as well as for evaluating improvements within one system. However, these measures do not give any details about the nature of translation errors. Therefore some analysis of the generated output is needed in order to identify the main problems and to focus the research efforts. On the other hand, human evaluation is a time consuming and expensive task. In this paper, we investigate methods for using of morpho-syntactic information for automatic evaluation: standard error measures WER and PER are calculated on distinct word classes and forms in order to get a better idea about the nature of translation errors and possibilities for improvements.
Year
Venue
Field
2006
WMT@HLT-NAACL
BLEU,Computer science,Evaluation of machine translation,Word error rate,Machine translation,Speech recognition,Morpho,NIST,Syntax,Standard error
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
19
1.02
References 
Authors
13
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Maja Popović116913.09
Hermann Ney2141781506.93
Adrià de Gispert347235.22
José B. Mariño451064.66
Deepa Gupta57511.91
marcello federico62420179.56
Patrik Lambert727723.36
Rafael Banchs81208.91