Josemina Magdalen


2001

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Evaluating machine translation output for an unknown source language: report of an ISLE-based investigation
Keith J. Miller | Donna M. Gates | Nancy Underwood | Josemina Magdalen
Workshop on MT Evaluation

It is often assumed that knowledge of both the source and target languages is necessary in order to evaluate the output of a machine translation (MT) system. This paper reports on an experimental evaluation of Chinese-English MT and Spanish-English MT from output specifically designed for evaluators who do not read or speak Chinese or Spanish. An outline of the characteristics measured and evaluation follows.