BLEU might be guilty but references are not innocent

M Freitag, D Grangier, I Caswell - arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.06063, 2020 - arxiv.org
The quality of automatic metrics for machine translation has been increasingly called into
question, especially for high-quality systems. This paper demonstrates that, while choice of …

The language demographics of amazon mechanical turk

E Pavlick, M Post, A Irvine, D Kachaev… - Transactions of the …, 2014 - direct.mit.edu
We present a large scale study of the languages spoken by bilingual workers on Mechanical
Turk (MTurk). We establish a methodology for determining the language skills of anonymous …

Crowdsourcing and translation quality: Novel approaches in the language industry and translation studies

MA Jiménez-Crespo - Translation quality assessment: From principles to …, 2018 - Springer
Crowdsourcing involves the outsourcing of processes previously conducted by
professionals in structured ways to communities and crowds using innovative workflows in …

Collaborative and volunteer translation and interpreting

MA Jiménez-Crespo - Researching translation and interpreting, 2015 - taylorfrancis.com
The notion of translation features widely in a variety of disciplines, but it is also well known
outside of academia as a concept that can be applied in a wide range of societal contexts …

[PDF][PDF] Are two heads better than one? crowdsourced translation via a two-step collaboration of non-professional translators and editors

R Yan, M Gao, E Pavlick… - Proceedings of the 52nd …, 2014 - aclanthology.org
Crowdsourcing is a viable mechanism for creating training data for machine translation. It
provides a low cost, fast turnaround way of processing large volumes of data. However …

Crawl and crowd to bring machine translation to under-resourced languages

A Toral, M Esplá-Gomis, F Klubička, N Ljubešić… - Language resources …, 2017 - Springer
We present a widely applicable methodology to bring machine translation (MT) to under-
resourced languages in a cost-effective and rapid manner. Our proposal relies on web …

[PDF][PDF] Cost optimization in crowdsourcing translation: Low cost translations made even cheaper

M Gao, W Xu, C Callison-Burch - … of the 2015 Conference of the …, 2015 - aclanthology.org
Crowdsourcing makes it possible to create translations at much lower cost than hiring
professional translators. However, it is still expensive to obtain the millions of translations …

[PDF][PDF] Re-assessing the Impact of SMT Techniques with Human Evaluation: a Case Study on English—Croatian

A Toral, R Rubino… - Proceedings of the 19th …, 2016 - aclanthology.org
We re-assess the impact brought by a set of widely-used SMT models and techniques by
means of human evaluation. These include different types of development sets …

交互式机器翻译中译文查询行为的预测技术

季铎, 马斌, 叶娜 - 计算机应用, 2015 - joca.cn
以交互式机器翻译(IMT) 为研究背景, 针对用户在翻译过程中调用双语查词而导致的鼠标-
键盘频繁切换的问题, 提出了一种面向翻译查词行为的预测模型. 该模型将查词行为转化为当前 …

Gender Bias in Automatic Translation

B Savoldi - 2023 - iris.unitn.it
Automatic translation tools have facilitated navigating multilingual contexts, by providing
accessible shortcuts for gathering, processing, and spreading information. As language …