Quantitative evaluation of machine translation systems: sentence level

Palmira Marrafa, António Ribeiro


Abstract
This paper reports the first results of an on-going research on evaluation of Machine Translation quality. The starting point for this work was the framework of ISLE (the International Standards for Language Engineering), which provides a classification for evaluation of Machine Translation. In order to make a quantitative evaluation of translation quality, we pursue a more consistent, fine-grained and comprehensive classification of possible translation errors and we propose metrics for sentence level errors, specifically lexical and syntactic errors.
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Workshop on MT Evaluation
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September 18-22
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2001
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Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Palmira Marrafa and António Ribeiro. 2001. Quantitative evaluation of machine translation systems: sentence level. In Workshop on MT Evaluation, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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