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A human evaluation of English-Irish statistical and neural machine translation
With official status in both Ireland and the EU, there is a need for high-quality English-Irish (EN-GA) machine translation (MT) systems which are suitable for use in a professional translation environment. While we have seen recent research on improving both statistical MT and neural MT for the EN-GA pair, the results of such systems have always been reported using automatic evaluation metrics. This paper provides the first human evaluation study of EN-GA MT using professional translators and in-domain (public administration) data for a more accurate depiction of the translation quality available via MT
Moving towards personalising translation technology
Technology has had an important impact on the work of translators and represents a
shift in the boundaries of translation work over time. Improvements in machine
translation have brought about further boundary shifts in some translation work and
are likely to continue having an impact. Yet translators sometimes feel frustrated with
the tools they use. This chapter looks to the field of personalisation in information
technology and proposes that personalising translation technology may be a way of
improving translator-computer interaction. Personalisation of translation technology
is considered from the perspectives of context, user modelling, trust, motivation and
well-being
A short guide to post-editing (Volume 16)
Artificial intelligence is changing and will continue to change the world we live in. These changes are also influencing the translation market. Machine translation (MT) systems automatically transfer one language to another within seconds. However, MT systems are very often still not capable of producing perfect translations. To achieve high quality translations, the MT output first has to be corrected by a professional translator. This procedure is called post-editing (PE). PE has become an established task on the professional translation market. The aim of this text book is to provide basic knowledge about the most relevant topics in professional PE. The text book comprises ten chapters on both theoretical and practical aspects including topics like MT approaches and development, guidelines, integration into CAT tools, risks in PE, data security, practical decisions in the PE process, competences for PE, and new job profiles
A Snapshot into the Possibility of Video Game Machine Translation
We present in this article what we believe to be one of the first attempts at
video game machine translation. Our study shows that models trained only with
limited in-domain data surpass publicly available systems by a significant
margin, and a subsequent human evaluation reveals interesting findings in the
final translation. The first part of the article introduces some of the
challenges of video game translation, some of the existing literature, as well
as the systems and data sets used in this experiment. The last sections discuss
our analysis of the resulting translation and the potential benefits of such an
automated system. One such finding highlights the model's ability to learn
typical rules and patterns of video game translations from English into French.
Our conclusions therefore indicate that the specific case of video game machine
translation could prove very much useful given the encouraging results, the
highly repetitive nature of the work, and the often poor working conditions
that translators face in this field. As with other use cases of MT in cultural
sectors, however, we believe this is heavily dependent on the proper
implementation of the tool, which should be used interactively by human
translators to stimulate creativity instead of raw post-editing for the sake of
productivity
Enhancing Operation of a Sewage Pumping Station for Inter Catchment Wastewater Transfer by Using Deep Learning and Hydraulic Model
This paper presents a novel Inter Catchment Wastewater Transfer (ICWT) method
for mitigating sewer overflow. The ICWT aims at balancing the spatial mismatch
of sewer flow and treatment capacity of Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP),
through collaborative operation of sewer system facilities. Using a hydraulic
model, the effectiveness of ICWT is investigated in a sewer system in Drammen,
Norway. Concerning the whole system performance, we found that the S{\o}ren
Lemmich pump station plays a vital role in the ICWT framework. To enhance the
operation of this pump station, it is imperative to construct a multi-step
ahead water level prediction model. Hence, one of the most promising artificial
intelligence techniques, Long Short Term Memory (LSTM), is employed to
undertake this task. Experiments demonstrated that LSTM is superior to Gated
Recurrent Unit (GRU), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Feed-forward Neural
Network (FFNN) and Support Vector Regression (SVR)
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