PET: a Tool for Post-editing and Assessing Machine Translation

Wilker Aziz, Sheila Castilho, Lucia Specia


Abstract
Given the significant improvements in Machine Translation (MT) quality and the increasing demand for translations, post-editing of automatic translations is becoming a popular practice in the translation industry. It has been shown to allow for much larger volumes of translations to be produced, saving time and costs. In addition, the post-editing of automatic translations can help understand problems in such translations and this can be used as feedback for researchers and developers to improve MT systems. Finally, post-editing can be used as a way of evaluating the quality of translations in terms of how much post-editing effort these translations require. We describe a standalone tool that has two main purposes: facilitate the post-editing of translations from any MT system so that they reach publishable quality and collect sentence-level information from the post-editing process, e.g.: post-editing time and detailed keystroke statistics.
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L12-1587
Volume:
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
Month:
May
Year:
2012
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Istanbul, Turkey
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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3982–3987
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http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/985_Paper.pdf
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Wilker Aziz, Sheila Castilho, and Lucia Specia. 2012. PET: a Tool for Post-editing and Assessing Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3982–3987, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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PET: a Tool for Post-editing and Assessing Machine Translation (Aziz et al., LREC 2012)
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