Jón Markússon
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Translating Syntactic Structures: An English-Icelandic Test Suite for Syntactic Divergence
Einar Sigurdsson | Steinthór Steingrímsson | Bjarki Ármannsson | Atli Jasonarson | Helga Svala Sigurdardottir | Jón Markússon
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
Einar Sigurdsson | Steinthór Steingrímsson | Bjarki Ármannsson | Atli Jasonarson | Helga Svala Sigurdardottir | Jón Markússon
Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Machine Translation
We present a test suite intended to study how well different machine translation systems do when translating syntactic constructions found in English that do not have a direct equivalent in Icelandic. We manually evaluate the translations and compare it to an automatic evaluation. Whereas the results demonstrate that the best-performing models achieve high accuracy in various categories, they still struggle with others.