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Automatic Language Processing Advisory Committee (ALPAC)
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
One of the constituent parts of the ALPAC report was a study comparing different levels of human translation with machine translation output, using human subjects as judges. The human judges were specially trained for the purpose. The evaluation study compared an MT system translating from Russian into English with human translators, [...]
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Round-trip translation
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
Although this may intuitively be a good method of evaluation, it has been shown that round-trip translation is a, “poor predictor of quality”. The reason why it is such a poor predictor of quality is reasonably intuitive. When a round-trip translation is performed, the method is not testing one system, but [...]
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Evaluation of machine translation
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Various methods for the evaluation for machine translation have been employed. This article will focus on the evaluation of the output of machine translation, rather than on performance or usability evaluation.
Before covering the large scale studies, a brief comment will be made on one of the more pervasive evaluation techniques, that of [...]
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