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title = "Pragmatics-based translation and {MT} evaluation",
author = "Farwell, David and
Helmreich, Stephen",
booktitle = "Workshop on Systemizing MT Evaluation",
month = sep # " 23-27",
year = "2003",
address = "New Orleans, USA",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2003.mtsummit-eval.3",
abstract = "In this paper the authors wish to present a view of translation equivalence related to a pragmatics-based approach to machine translation. We will argue that current evaluation methods which assume that there is a predictable correspondence between language forms cannot adequately account for this view. We will then describe a method for objectively determining the relative equivalence of two texts. However, given the need for both an open world assumption and non-monotonic inferencing, such a method cannot be realistically implemented and therefore certain ``classic'' evaluation strategies will continue to be preferable as practical methods of evaluation.",
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%T Pragmatics-based translation and MT evaluation
%A Farwell, David
%A Helmreich, Stephen
%S Workshop on Systemizing MT Evaluation
%D 2003
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%C New Orleans, USA
%F farwell-helmreich-2003-pragmatics
%X In this paper the authors wish to present a view of translation equivalence related to a pragmatics-based approach to machine translation. We will argue that current evaluation methods which assume that there is a predictable correspondence between language forms cannot adequately account for this view. We will then describe a method for objectively determining the relative equivalence of two texts. However, given the need for both an open world assumption and non-monotonic inferencing, such a method cannot be realistically implemented and therefore certain “classic” evaluation strategies will continue to be preferable as practical methods of evaluation.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2003.mtsummit-eval.3
Markdown (Informal)
[Pragmatics-based translation and MT evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/2003.mtsummit-eval.3) (Farwell & Helmreich, MTSummit 2003)
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