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Friday of this week (April 21), at 16:00, in the Lloyd Lecture Theatre
01 Theatre (TCD), Dr. Carla Parra Escartín (DCU, ADAPT Centre) will
provide the Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar.
Title:
How good shall it be? Establishing Machine Translation quality
thresholds to boost professional translators productivity
Abstract:
Machine Translation (MT) has become a reality in the translation
industry. Over the past few years, translators have experienced the
introduction of Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE) tasks in their
workflows, and are constantly asked for discounts for MTPE
tasks. However, the question of whether MT output has a positive
impact in productivity is still open.
In this talk, I will first present how professional translators work
and how MT is introduced in real production workflows. Then, I will
present an experiment involving 10 professional translators in which
we measured their productivity when translating from scratch,
post-editing Translation Memory fuzzy matches and post-editing Machine
Translation output. I will discuss the results of our experiment, and
the productivity thresholds that we identified.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Carla Parra Escartín obtained her PhD in Computational Linguistics
at the University of Bergen (Norway) and is currently a post-doctoral
researcher at the ADAPT Centre in DCU.
To see her current and previous work, you can visit her personal
website at: https://sites.google.com/site/carlaparraescartin/
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cooperation among Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City University,
University College Dublin and the Dublin Institute of Technology, a
long standing collaboration which overlaps with the SFI CNGL/ADAPT
centres.
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Trinity Centre for Computing and Language Studies
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