A test suite for evaluation of English-to-Korean machine translation systems

Sungryong Koh, Jinee Maeng, Ji-Young Lee, Young-Sook Chae, Key-Sun Choi


Abstract
This paper describes KORTERM’s test suite and their practicability. The test-sets have been being constructed on the basis of fine-grained classification of linguistic phenomena to evaluate the technical status of English-to-Korean MT systems systematically. They consist of about 5000 test-sets and are growing. Each test-set contains an English sentence, a model Korean translation, a linguistic phenomenon category, and a yes/no question about the linguistic phenomenon. Two commercial systems were evaluated with a yes/no test of prepared questions. Total accuracy rates of the two systems were different (50% vs. 66%). In addition, a comprehension test was carried out. We found that one system was more comprehensible than the other system. These results seem to show that our test suite is practicable.
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2001.mtsummit-papers.35
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Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII
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September 18-22
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2001
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Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Bente Maegaard
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Sungryong Koh, Jinee Maeng, Ji-Young Lee, Young-Sook Chae, and Key-Sun Choi. 2001. A test suite for evaluation of English-to-Korean machine translation systems. In Proceedings of Machine Translation Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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