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    <abstract>Despite the growth of statistical machine translation (SMT) research and development in recent years, it remains somewhat out of reach for the translation community where programming expertise and knowledge of statistics tend not to be commonplace. While the concept of SMT is relatively straightforward, its implementation in functioning systems remains difficult for most, regardless of expertise. More recently, however, developments such as SmartMATE have emerged which aim to assist users in creating their own customized SMT systems and thus reduce the learning curve associated with SMT. In addition to commercial uses, translator training stands to benefit from such increased levels of inclusion and access to state-of-the-art approaches to MT. In this paper we draw on experience in developing and evaluating a new syllabus in SMT for a cohort of post-graduate student translators: we identify several issues encountered in the introduction of student translators to SMT, and report on data derived from repeated measures questionnaires that aim to capture data on students’ self-efficacy in the use of SMT. Overall, results show that participants report significant increases in their levels of confidence and knowledge of MT in general, and of SMT in particular. Additional benefits – such as increased technical competence and confidence – and future refinements are also discussed.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Taking Statistical Machine Translation to the Student Translator
%A Doherty, Stephen
%A Kenny, Dorothy
%A Way, Andy
%S Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Commercial MT User Program
%D 2012
%8 oct 28 nov 1
%I Association for Machine Translation in the Americas
%C San Diego, California, USA
%F doherty-etal-2012-taking
%X Despite the growth of statistical machine translation (SMT) research and development in recent years, it remains somewhat out of reach for the translation community where programming expertise and knowledge of statistics tend not to be commonplace. While the concept of SMT is relatively straightforward, its implementation in functioning systems remains difficult for most, regardless of expertise. More recently, however, developments such as SmartMATE have emerged which aim to assist users in creating their own customized SMT systems and thus reduce the learning curve associated with SMT. In addition to commercial uses, translator training stands to benefit from such increased levels of inclusion and access to state-of-the-art approaches to MT. In this paper we draw on experience in developing and evaluating a new syllabus in SMT for a cohort of post-graduate student translators: we identify several issues encountered in the introduction of student translators to SMT, and report on data derived from repeated measures questionnaires that aim to capture data on students’ self-efficacy in the use of SMT. Overall, results show that participants report significant increases in their levels of confidence and knowledge of MT in general, and of SMT in particular. Additional benefits – such as increased technical competence and confidence – and future refinements are also discussed.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-commercial.3

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[Taking Statistical Machine Translation to the Student Translator](https://aclanthology.org/2012.amta-commercial.3) (Doherty et al., AMTA 2012)

• Taking Statistical Machine Translation to the Student Translator (Doherty et al., AMTA 2012)

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• Stephen Doherty, Dorothy Kenny, and Andy Way. 2012. Taking Statistical Machine Translation to the Student Translator. In Proceedings of the 10th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Commercial MT User Program, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Machine Translation in the Americas.