Machine Translation Infrastructure and Post-editing Performance at Autodesk

Ventsislav Zhechev

Abstract
In this paper, we present the Moses-based infrastructure we developed and use as a productivity tool for the localisation of software documentation and user interface (UI) strings at Autodesk into twelve languages. We describe the adjustments we have made to the machine translation (MT) training workflow to suit our needs and environment, our server environment and the MT Info Service that handles all translation requests and allows the integration of MT in our various localisation systems. We also present the results of our latest post-editing productivity test, where we measured the productivity gain for translators post-editing MT output versus translating from scratch. Our analysis of the data indicates the presence of a strong correlation between the amount of editing applied to the raw MT output by the translators and their productivity gain. In addition, within the last calendar year our system has processed over thirteen million tokens of documentation content of which we have a record of the performed post-editing. This has allowed us to evaluate the performance of our MT engines for the different languages across our product portfolio, as well as spotlight potential issues with MT in the localisation process.
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2012.amta-wptp.10
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Workshop on Post-Editing Technology and Practice
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October 28
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2012
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San Diego, California, USA
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Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
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Ventsislav Zhechev. 2012. Machine Translation Infrastructure and Post-editing Performance at Autodesk. In Workshop on Post-Editing Technology and Practice, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.
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