Lena Marg


2020

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Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
André Martins | Helena Moniz | Sara Fumega | Bruno Martins | Fernando Batista | Luisa Coheur | Carla Parra | Isabel Trancoso | Marco Turchi | Arianna Bisazza | Joss Moorkens | Ana Guerberof | Mary Nurminen | Lena Marg | Mikel L. Forcada
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

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Machine Translation Post-Editing Levels: Breaking Away from the Tradition and Delivering a Tailored Service
Mara Nunziatini | Lena Marg
Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

While definitions of full and light post-editing have been around for a while, and error typologies like DQF and MQM gained in prominence since the beginning of last decade, for a long time customers tended to refuse to be flexible as for their final quality requirements, irrespective of the text type, purpose, target audience etc. We are now finally seeing some change in this space, with a renewed interest in different machine translation (MT) and post-editing (PE) service levels. While existing definitions of light and full post-editing are useful as general guidelines, they typically remain too abstract and inflexible both for translation buyers and linguists. Besides, they are inconsistent and overlap across the literature and different Language Service Providers (LSPs). In this paper, we comment on existing industry standards and share our experience on several challenges, as well as ways to steer customer conversations and provide clear instructions to post-editors.

2019


A Deep Learning Curve for Post-Editing 2
Lena Marg | Alex> Yanishevsky
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVII: Tutorial Abstracts

In the last couple of years, machine translation technology has seen major changes with the breakthrough of neural machine translation (NMT), a growing number of providers and translation platforms. Machine Translation generally is experiencing a peak in demand from translation buyers, thanks to Machine Learning and AI being omnipresent in the media and at industry events. At the same time, new models for defining translation quality are becoming more widely adopted. These changes have profound implications for translators, LSPs and translation buyers: translators have to adjust their post-editing approaches, while LSPs and translation buyers are faced with decisions on selecting providers, best approaches for updating MT systems, financial investments, integrating tools, and getting the timing for implementation right for an optimum ROI.In this tutorial on MT and post-editing we would like to continue sharing the latest trends in the field of MT technologies, and discuss their impact on post-editing practices as well as integrating MT on large, multi-language translation programs. We will look at tool compatibility, different use cases of MT and dynamic quality models, and share our experience of measuring performance.

2017

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Comparative Evaluation of NMT with Established SMT Programs
Lena Marg | Naoko Miyazaki | Elaine O’Curran | Tanja Schmidt
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XVI: Commercial MT Users and Translators Track

2016

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The Trials and Tribulations of Predicting Post-Editing Productivity
Lena Marg
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)

While an increasing number of (automatic) metrics is available to assess the linguistic quality of machine translations, their interpretation remains cryptic to many users, specifically in the translation community. They are clearly useful for indicating certain overarching trends, but say little about actual improvements for translation buyers or post-editors. However, these metrics are commonly referenced when discussing pricing and models, both with translation buyers and service providers. With the aim of focusing on automatic metrics that are easier to understand for non-research users, we identified Edit Distance (or Post-Edit Distance) as a good fit. While Edit Distance as such does not express cognitive effort or time spent editing machine translation suggestions, we found that it correlates strongly with the productivity tests we performed, for various language pairs and domains. This paper aims to analyse Edit Distance and productivity data on a segment level based on data gathered over some years. Drawing from these findings, we want to then explore how Edit Distance could help in predicting productivity on new content. Some further analysis is proposed, with findings to be presented at the conference.

2014

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Assumptions, expectations and outliers in post-editing
Laura Casanellas | Lena Marg
Proceedings of the 17th Annual conference of the European Association for Machine Translation

2013

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Connectivity, Adaptability, Productivity, Quality, Price... What are the Necessary Ingredients to get the MT Recipe Right?
Laura Casanellas | Lena Marg
Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit XIV: User track