Abstract
This paper focuses on the relationship between source text characteristics (ambiguity, complexity and style compliance) and machine-translation post-editing effort (both temporal and technical). Post-editing data is collected in a traditional translation environment and subsequently plotted against textual scores produced by a range of systems. Our findings show some strong correlation between ambiguity and complexity scores and technical post-editing effort, as well as moderate correlation between one of the style guide compliance scores and temporal post-editing effort.- Anthology ID:
- 2010.jec-1.6
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop: Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry
- Month:
- November 4
- Year:
- 2010
- Address:
- Denver, Colorado, USA
- Editor:
- Ventsislav Zhechev
- Venue:
- JEC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
- Note:
- Pages:
- 43–52
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2010.jec-1.6
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Midori Tatsumi and Johann Roturier. 2010. Source Text Characteristics and Technical and Temporal Post-Editing Effort: What is Their Relationship. In Proceedings of the Second Joint EM+/CNGL Workshop: Bringing MT to the User: Research on Integrating MT in the Translation Industry, pages 43–52, Denver, Colorado, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
- Cite (Informal):
- Source Text Characteristics and Technical and Temporal Post-Editing Effort: What is Their Relationship (Tatsumi & Roturier, JEC 2010)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/corrections-2024-07/2010.jec-1.6.pdf