ProphetMT: A Tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language Authoring/Post-Editing Tool

Xiaofeng Wu, Jinhua Du, Qun Liu, Andy Way


Abstract
This paper presents ProphetMT, a tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language (CL) authoring and post-editing tool. ProphetMT employs the source-side rules in a translation model and provides them as auto-suggestions to users. Accordingly, one might say that users are writing in a Controlled Language that is understood by the computer. ProphetMT also allows users to easily attach structural information as they compose content. When a specific rule is selected, a partial translation is promptly generated on-the-fly with the help of the structural information. Our experiments conducted on English-to-Chinese show that our proposed ProphetMT system can not only better regularise an author’s writing behaviour, but also significantly improve translation fluency which is vital to reduce the post-editing time. Additionally, when the writing and translation process is over, ProphetMT can provide an effective colour scheme to further improve the productivity of post-editors by explicitly featuring the relations between the source and target rules.
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L16-1352
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
Year:
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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2214–2221
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1352
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Xiaofeng Wu, Jinhua Du, Qun Liu, and Andy Way. 2016. ProphetMT: A Tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language Authoring/Post-Editing Tool. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2214–2221, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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ProphetMT: A Tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language Authoring/Post-Editing Tool (Wu et al., LREC 2016)
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