@inproceedings{moran-etal-2014-towards,
    title = "Towards desktop-based {CAT} tool instrumentation",
    author = "Moran, John  and
      Saam, Christian  and
      Lewis, Dave",
    editor = "O'Brien, Sharon  and
      Simard, Michel  and
      Specia, Lucia",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas",
    month = oct # " 22-26",
    year = "2014",
    address = "Vancouver, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Machine Translation in the Americas",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2014.amta-wptp.8/",
    pages = "99--112",
    abstract = "Though a number of web-based CAT tools have emerged over recent years, to date the most common form of CAT tool used by translators remains the desktop-based CAT tool. However, currently none of the most commonly used desktop-based CAT tools provide a means of measuring translation speed at a segment level. This metric is important, as previous work on MT productivity testing has shown that edit distance can be a misleading measure of MT post-editing effort. In this paper we present iOmegaT, an instrumented version of a popular desktop-based open-source CAT tool called OmegaT. We survey a number of similar applications and outline some of the weaknesses of web-based CAT tools for experi- enced professional translators. On the basis of a two productivity test carried out using iOmegaT we show why it is important to be able to identify fast good post-editors to maximize MT utility and how this is problematic using only edit-distance measures. Finally, we argue how and why instrumentation could be added to more commonly used desktop-based CAT tools that are paid for by freelance translators if their privacy is respected."
}