ProphetMT: a tree-based SMT-driven controlled language
authoring/post-editing tools
Wu, Xiaofeng, Du, JinhuaORCID: 0000-0002-3267-4881 and Way, AndyORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930
(2016)
ProphetMT: a tree-based SMT-driven controlled language
authoring/post-editing tools.
In: Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016), 23-28 May 2016, Portorož, Slovenia.
ISBN 978-2-9517408-9-1
This paper presents ProphetMT, a tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language (CL) authoring and post-editing tool. ProphetMT
employs the source-side rules in a translation model and provides them as auto-suggestions to users. Accordingly, one might say
that users are writing in a ‘Controlled Language’ that is ‘understood’ by the computer. ProphetMT also allows users to easily attach
structural information as they compose content. When a specific rule is selected, a partial translation is promptly generated on-the-fly
with the help of the structural information. Our experiments conducted on English-to-Chinese show that our proposed ProphetMT
system can not only better regularise an author’s writing behaviour, but also significantly improve translation fluency which is vital to
reduce the post-editing time. Additionally, when the writing and translation process is over, ProphetMT can provide an effective colour
scheme to further improve the productivity of post-editors by explicitly featuring the relations between the source and target rules.
Calzolari, Nicoletta and Choukri, Khalid and Declerck, Thierry and Goggi, Sara, (eds.)
Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2016).
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European Language Resources Association. ISBN 978-2-9517408-9-1