Testsuite on Czech–English Grammatical Contrasts

Silvie Cinková, Ondřej Bojar


Abstract
We present a pilot study of machine translation of selected grammatical contrasts between Czech and English in WMT18 News Translation Task. For each phenomenon, we run a dedicated test which checks if the candidate translation expresses the phenomenon as expected or not. The proposed type of analysis is not an evaluation in the strict sense because the phenomenon can be correctly translated in various ways and we anticipate only one. What is nevertheless interesting are the differences between various MT systems and the single reference translation in their general tendency in handling the given phenomenon.
Anthology ID:
W18-6434
Volume:
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
Month:
October
Year:
2018
Address:
Belgium, Brussels
Editors:
Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Matt Post, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor
Venue:
WMT
SIG:
SIGMT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
561–569
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-6434
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6434
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Cite (ACL):
Silvie Cinková and Ondřej Bojar. 2018. Testsuite on Czech–English Grammatical Contrasts. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, pages 561–569, Belgium, Brussels. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Testsuite on Czech–English Grammatical Contrasts (Cinková & Bojar, WMT 2018)
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