TransType2 : The Last Word

Elliott Macklovitch


Abstract
This paper presents the results of the usability evaluations that were conducted within TransType2, an international R&D project the goal of which was to develop a novel approach to interactive machine translation. We briefly sketch the TransType system and then describe the methodology that we elaborated for the five rounds of user trials that were held on the premises of two translation agencies over the last eighteen months of the project. We provide the productivity results posted by the six translators who tested the system and we also discuss some of the non-quantitative factors which influenced the users’ reaction to TransType.
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L06-1008
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Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06)
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May
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2006
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Genoa, Italy
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Aldo Gangemi, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Daniel Tapias
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/14_pdf.pdf
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Elliott Macklovitch. 2006. TransType2 : The Last Word. In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’06), Genoa, Italy. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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TransType2 : The Last Word (Macklovitch, LREC 2006)
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