Enabling Monolingual Translators: Post-Editing vs. Options

Philipp Koehn

Enabling Monolingual Translators: Post-Editing vs. Options

Philipp Koehn

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Abstract

We carried out a study on monolingual translators with no knowledge of the source language, but aided by post-editing and the display of translation options. On Arabic-English and Chinese-English, using standard test data and current statistical machine translation systems, 10 monolingual translators were able to translate 35% of Arabic and 28% of Chinese sentences correctly on average, with some of
the participants coming close to professional bilingual performance on some of the documents.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Human Language Technologies: Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics, Proceedings, June 2-4, 2010, Los Angeles, California, USA
Pages	537-545
Number of pages	9
Publication status	Published - 2010

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