Abstract
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.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.eamt-1.33
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Lisboa, Portugal
- Editors:
- 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
- Venue:
- EAMT
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Association for Machine Translation
- Note:
- Pages:
- 309–318
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.eamt-1.33
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Mara Nunziatini and Lena Marg. 2020. Machine Translation Post-Editing Levels: Breaking Away from the Tradition and Delivering a Tailored Service. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, pages 309–318, Lisboa, Portugal. European Association for Machine Translation.
- Cite (Informal):
- Machine Translation Post-Editing Levels: Breaking Away from the Tradition and Delivering a Tailored Service (Nunziatini & Marg, EAMT 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/2020.eamt-1.33.pdf