Title
Toward determining the comprehensibility of machine translations
Abstract
Economic globalization and the needs of the intelligence community have brought machine translation into the forefront. There are not enough skilled human translators to meet the growing demand for high quality translations or "good enough" translations that suffice only to enable understanding. Much research has been done in creating translation systems to aid human translators and to evaluate the output of these systems. Metrics for the latter have primarily focused on improving the overall quality of entire test sets but not on gauging the understanding of individual sentences or paragraphs. Therefore, we have focused on developing a theory of translation effectiveness by isolating a set of translation variables and measuring their effects on the comprehension of translations. In the following study, we focus on investigating how certain linguistic permutations, omissions, and insertions affect the understanding of translated texts.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2012
PITR@NAACL-HLT
high quality translation,human translator,translation system,translation variable,good enough,machine translation,overall quality,certain linguistic permutation,skilled human translator,translation effectiveness,theory,variables,intelligence,measurement,linguistics
Field
DocType
Citations 
Rule-based machine translation,Example-based machine translation,Computer science,Machine translation,Permutation,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Linguistics,Economic globalization,Comprehension
Conference
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tucker Maney1433.46
Linda Sibert26912.27
Dennis Perzanowski325826.56
Kalyan Gupta420.38
Astrid Schmidt-Nielsen5253.79