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Publication details [#13607]
Elliott, Debbie, Anthony F. Hartley and Eric Atwell. 2003. Rationale for a multilingual corpus for machine translation evaluation. In Archer, Dawn, Paul Rayson, Andrew Wilson and Tony McEnery, eds. Proceedings of the Corpus Linguistics 2003 conference (UCREL technical papers). Lancaster: Lancaster University. pp. 191–200. URL
Publication type
Article in jnl/bk
Publication language
English
Abstract
An overview of research to date in human and automated machine translation (MT) evaluation (Elliott 2002) points to a growing interest in the investigation of new automated methods, allowing for the quick and inexpensive evaluation of MT output. It is clear, however, that corpora designed for this purpose are lacking. The authors' research in automated evaluation methods will require not only a corpus of source texts with machine translations that represent actual MT use, but also the detailed scores for these translations given by human evaluators. These scores will allow testing of the reliability of new automated evaluation methods. It is the author's intention, therefore, to compile a multilingual corpus specifically for MT evaluation, to meet not only their own research requirements, but the needs of the MT community at large.
Source : Based on abstract in book