Perceptions of Educators on MTQA Curriculum and Instruction

João Camargo, Sheila Castilho, Joss Moorkens


Abstract
This paper reports the preliminary resultsof a survey aimed at identifying and ex-ploring the attitudes and recommendationsof machine translation quality assessment(MTQA) educators. Drawing upon ele-ments from the literature on MTQA teach-ing, the survey explores themes that maypose a challenge or lead to successful im-plementation of human evaluation, as theliterature shows that there has not beenenough design and reporting. Results show educators’ awareness ofthe topic, awareness stemming from therecommendations of the literature on MTevaluation, and reports new challenges andissues.
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2024.eamt-1.41
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Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 1)
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June
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2024
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Sheffield, UK
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Carolina Scarton, Charlotte Prescott, Chris Bayliss, Chris Oakley, Joanna Wright, Stuart Wrigley, Xingyi Song, Edward Gow-Smith, Rachel Bawden, Víctor M Sánchez-Cartagena, Patrick Cadwell, Ekaterina Lapshinova-Koltunski, Vera Cabarrão, Konstantinos Chatzitheodorou, Mary Nurminen, Diptesh Kanojia, Helena Moniz
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European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT)
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492–506
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https://aclanthology.org/2024.eamt-1.41
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João Camargo, Sheila Castilho, and Joss Moorkens. 2024. Perceptions of Educators on MTQA Curriculum and Instruction. In Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (Volume 1), pages 492–506, Sheffield, UK. European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT).
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