A Post-editing Interface for Immediate Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation

Patrick Simianer, Sariya Karimova, Stefan Riezler


Abstract
Adaptive machine translation (MT) systems are a promising approach for improving the effectiveness of computer-aided translation (CAT) environments. There is, however, virtually only theoretical work that examines how such a system could be implemented. We present an open source post-editing interface for adaptive statistical MT, which has in-depth monitoring capabilities and excellent expandability, and can facilitate practical studies. To this end, we designed text-based and graphical post-editing interfaces. The graphical interface offers means for displaying and editing a rich view of the MT output. Our translation systems may learn from post-edits using several weight, language model and novel translation model adaptation techniques, in part by exploiting the output of the graphical interface. In a user study we show that using the proposed interface and adaptation methods, reductions in technical effort and time can be achieved.
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C16-2004
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Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations
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December
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2016
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Osaka, Japan
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Hideo Watanabe
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COLING
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The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
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16–20
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Patrick Simianer, Sariya Karimova, and Stefan Riezler. 2016. A Post-editing Interface for Immediate Adaptation in Statistical Machine Translation. In Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations, pages 16–20, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
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