Towards desktop-based CAT tool instrumentation

John Moran, Christian Saam, Dave Lewis

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.
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2014.amta-wptp.8
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Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
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October 22-26
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2014
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Vancouver, Canada
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Sharon O'Brien, Michel Simard, Lucia Specia
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AMTA
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Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
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99–112
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John Moran, Christian Saam, and Dave Lewis. 2014. Towards desktop-based CAT tool instrumentation. In Proceedings of the 11th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas, pages 99–112, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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