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2012

Two Phase Evaluation for Selecting Machine Translation Services.

LREC 2012 - EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
  • Chunqi Shi
  • ,
  • Donghui Lin
  • ,
  • Masahiko Shimada
  • ,
  • Toru Ishida 0001

First page
1771
Last page
1778
Language
English
Publishing type
Research paper (international conference proceedings)
Publisher
EUROPEAN LANGUAGE RESOURCES ASSOC-ELRA

An increased number of machine translation services are now available. Unfortunately, none of them can provide adequate translation quality for all input sources. This forces the user to select from among the services according to his needs. However, it is tedious and time consuming to perform this manual selection. Our solution, proposed here, is an automatic mechanism that can select the most appropriate machine translation service. Although evaluation methods are available, such as BLEU, NIST, WER, etc., their evaluation results are not unanimous regardless of the translation sources. We proposed a two-phase architecture for selecting translation services. The first phase uses a data-driven classification to allow the most appropriate evaluation method to be selected according to each translation source. The second phase selects the most appropriate machine translation result by the selected evaluation method. We describe the architecture, detail the algorithm, and construct a prototype. Tests show that the proposal yields better translation quality than employing just one machine translation service.

Link information
DBLP
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/conf/lrec/ShiLSI12
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000323927701141&DestApp=WOS_CPL
URL
http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/summaries/802.html
URL
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/conf/lrec/2012
URL
https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/lrec/lrec2012.html#ShiLSI12
ID information
  • DBLP ID : conf/lrec/ShiLSI12
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000323927701141

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