Abstract
This paper presents ProphetMT, a tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language (CL) authoring and post-editing tool. ProphetMT employs the source-side rules in a translation model and provides them as auto-suggestions to users. Accordingly, one might say that users are writing in a Controlled Language that is understood by the computer. ProphetMT also allows users to easily attach structural information as they compose content. When a specific rule is selected, a partial translation is promptly generated on-the-fly with the help of the structural information. Our experiments conducted on English-to-Chinese show that our proposed ProphetMT system can not only better regularise an author’s writing behaviour, but also significantly improve translation fluency which is vital to reduce the post-editing time. Additionally, when the writing and translation process is over, ProphetMT can provide an effective colour scheme to further improve the productivity of post-editors by explicitly featuring the relations between the source and target rules.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1352
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2214–2221
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1352
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Xiaofeng Wu, Jinhua Du, Qun Liu, and Andy Way. 2016. ProphetMT: A Tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language Authoring/Post-Editing Tool. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2214–2221, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- ProphetMT: A Tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language Authoring/Post-Editing Tool (Wu et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/remove-xml-comments/L16-1352.pdf