A human evaluation of English-Irish statistical and neural machine translation

Meghan Dowling, Sheila Castilho, Joss Moorkens, Teresa Lynn, Andy Way


Abstract
With official status in both Ireland and the EU, there is a need for high-quality English-Irish (EN-GA) machine translation (MT) systems which are suitable for use in a professional translation environment. While we have seen recent research on improving both statistical MT and neural MT for the EN-GA pair, the results of such systems have always been reported using automatic evaluation metrics. This paper provides the first human evaluation study of EN-GA MT using professional translators and in-domain (public administration) data for a more accurate depiction of the translation quality available via MT.
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2020.eamt-1.46
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Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
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November
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2020
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Lisboa, Portugal
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European Association for Machine Translation
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431–440
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Meghan Dowling, Sheila Castilho, Joss Moorkens, Teresa Lynn, and Andy Way. 2020. A human evaluation of English-Irish statistical and neural machine translation. In Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, pages 431–440, Lisboa, Portugal. European Association for Machine Translation.
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