Integrating online and active learning in a computer-assisted translation workbench
Vicent Alabau, Jesús González-Rubio, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Francisco Casacuberta, Mercedes García-Martínez, Bartolomé Mesa-Lao, Dan Cheung Petersen, Barbara Dragsted, Michael Carl
Abstract
This paper describes a pilot study with a computed-assisted translation workbench aiming at testing the integration of online and active learning features. We investigate the effect of these features on translation productivity, using interactive translation prediction (ITP) as a baseline. User activity data were collected from five beta testers using key-logging and eye-tracking. User feedback was also collected at the end of the experiments in the form of retrospective think-aloud protocols. We found that OL performs better than ITP, especially in terms of translation speed. In addition, AL provides better translation quality than ITP for the same levels of user effort. We plan to incorporate these features in the final version of the workbench.- Anthology ID:
- 2014.amta-workshop.1
- Volume:
- Workshop on interactive and adaptive machine translation
- Month:
- October 22
- Year:
- 2014
- Address:
- Vancouver, Canada
- Editors:
- Francisco Casacuberta, Marcello Federico, Philipp Koehn
- Venue:
- AMTA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1–8
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2014.amta-workshop.1
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Vicent Alabau, Jesús González-Rubio, Daniel Ortiz-Martínez, Germán Sanchis-Trilles, Francisco Casacuberta, Mercedes García-Martínez, Bartolomé Mesa-Lao, Dan Cheung Petersen, Barbara Dragsted, and Michael Carl. 2014. Integrating online and active learning in a computer-assisted translation workbench. In Workshop on interactive and adaptive machine translation, pages 1–8, Vancouver, Canada. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
- Cite (Informal):
- Integrating online and active learning in a computer-assisted translation workbench (Alabau et al., AMTA 2014)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-3/2014.amta-workshop.1.pdf