Segment-based Interactive Machine Translation at a Character Level

Angel Navarro, Miguel Domingo, Francisco Casacuberta


Abstract
To produce high quality translations, human translators need to review and correct machine translation hypothesis in what it is known as post-editing. In order to reduce the human effort of this process, interactive machine translation proposed a collaborative framework in which human and machine work together to generate the translations. Among the many protocols proposed throughout the years, the segment-based one established a paradigm in which the post-editor was allowed to validate correct word sequences from a translation hypothesis and introduced a word correction to help the system improve the next hypothesis. In this work we propose an extension to this protocol: instead of having to the type the complete word correction, the system will complete the user’s correction while they are typing. We evaluated our proposal under a simulated environment, achieving a significant reduction of the human effort.
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2023.eamt-1.23
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Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation
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June
Year:
2023
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Tampere, Finland
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Mary Nurminen, Judith Brenner, Maarit Koponen, Sirkku Latomaa, Mikhail Mikhailov, Frederike Schierl, Tharindu Ranasinghe, Eva Vanmassenhove, Sergi Alvarez Vidal, Nora Aranberri, Mara Nunziatini, Carla Parra Escartín, Mikel Forcada, Maja Popovic, Carolina Scarton, Helena Moniz
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EAMT
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European Association for Machine Translation
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239–248
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.eamt-1.23
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Angel Navarro, Miguel Domingo, and Francisco Casacuberta. 2023. Segment-based Interactive Machine Translation at a Character Level. In Proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation, pages 239–248, Tampere, Finland. European Association for Machine Translation.
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Segment-based Interactive Machine Translation at a Character Level (Navarro et al., EAMT 2023)
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