Evaluating Machine Translation in a Usage Scenario

Rosa Gaudio, Aljoscha Burchardt, António Branco


Abstract
In this document we report on a user-scenario-based evaluation aiming at assessing the performance of machine translation (MT) systems in a real context of use. We describe a sequel of experiments that has been performed to estimate the usefulness of MT and to test if improvements of MT technology lead to better performance in the usage scenario. One goal is to find the best methodology for evaluating the eventual benefit of a machine translation system in an application. The evaluation is based on the QTLeap corpus, a novel multilingual language resource that was collected through a real-life support service via chat. It is composed of naturally occurring utterances produced by users while interacting with a human technician providing answers. The corpus is available in eight different languages: Basque, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, English, German, Portuguese and Spanish.
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L16-1001
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
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2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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1–8
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Rosa Gaudio, Aljoscha Burchardt, and António Branco. 2016. Evaluating Machine Translation in a Usage Scenario. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1–8, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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Evaluating Machine Translation in a Usage Scenario (Gaudio et al., LREC 2016)
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