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Accession Number
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ADA562692
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Title
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Toward Determining the Comprehensibility of Machine Translations.
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Publication Date
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2012
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Media Count
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8p
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Personal Author
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A. Schmidt-Nielsen D. Perzanowski K. Gupta L. Sibert T. Maney
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Abstract
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Economic globalization and the needs of the intelligence community have brought ma-chine translation into the forefront. There are not enough skilled human translators to meet the growing demand for high quality transla- tions or 'good enough' translations that suf-fice only to enable understanding. Much research has been done in creating transla-tion systems to aid human translators and to evaluate the output of these systems. Metrics for the latter have primarily focused on im-proving the overall quality of entire test sets but not on gauging the understanding of in-dividual sentences or paragraphs. Therefore, we have focused on developing a theory of translation effectiveness by isolating a set of translation variables and measuring their ef-fects on the comprehension of translations. In the following study, we focus on investi- gating how certain linguistic permutations, omissions, and insertions affect the under-standing of translated texts.
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Keywords
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Intelligence
Linguistics
Machine translation
Measurement
Quality
Test sets
Textbooks
Theory
Translations
Variables
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Source Agency
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Non Paid ADAS
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NTIS Subject Category
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92D - Education, Law, & Humanities
44T - Data & Information Systems
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Corporate Author
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Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC.
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Document Type
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Journal article
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Title Note
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Journal article.
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NTIS Issue Number
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1225
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Contract Number
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N/A
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