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A New Input Method for Human Translators: Integrating Machine Translation Effectively and Imperceptibly

Guoping Huang, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, Chengqing Zong

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Main Track. Pages 1163-1168.

Abstract

Computer-aided translation (CAT) system is the most popular tool which helps human translators perform language translation efficiently. To further improve the efficiency, there is an increasing interest in applying the machine translation (MT) technology to upgrade CAT. Post-editing is a standard approach: human translators generate the translation by correcting MT outputs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach deeply integrating MT into CAT systems: a well-designed input method which makes full use of the knowledge adopted by MT systems, such as translation rules, decoding hypotheses and n-best translation lists. Our proposed approach allows human translators to focus on choosing better translation results with less time rather than just complete translation themselves. The extensive experiments demonstrate that our method saves more than 14% time and over 33% keystrokes, and it improves the translation quality as well by more than 3 absolute BLEU scores compared with the strong baseline, i.e., post-editing using Google Pinyin.

Guoping Huang, Jiajun Zhang, Yu Zhou, and Chengqing Zong. 2015. A New Input Method for Human Translators: Integrating Machine Translation Effectively and Imperceptibly. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-15. IJCAI, 1163–1168. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/168
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