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Título:
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Leveraging online user feedback to improve statistical machine translation
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Autor/a:
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Formiga, Lluís; Barrón-Cedeño, Alberto; Marquez, Lluis; Henriquez, Carlos A; Mariño Acebal, José Bernardo
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Ciències de la Computació; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. GPLN - Grup de Processament del Llenguatge Natural; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. VEU - Grup de Tractament de la Parla |
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Abstract:
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In this article we present a three-step methodology for dynamically improving a statistical machine translation (SMT) system by incorporating human feedback in the form of free edits on the system translations. We target at feedback provided by casual users, which is typically error-prone. Thus, we first propose a filtering step to automatically identify the better user-edited translations and discard the useless ones. A second step produces a pivot-based alignment between source and user-edited sentences, focusing on the errors made by the system. Finally, a third step produces a new translation model and combines it linearly with the one from the original system. We perform a thorough evaluation on a real-world dataset collected from the Reverso.net translation service and show that every step in our methodology contributes significantly to improve a general purpose SMT system. Interestingly, the quality improvement is not only due to the increase of lexical coverage, but to a better lexical selection, reordering, and morphology. Finally, we show the robustness of the methodology by applying it to a different scenario, in which the new examples come from an automatically Web-crawled parallel corpus. Using exactly the same architecture and models provides again a significant improvement of the translation quality of a general purpose baseline SMT system. |
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Abstract:
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Peer Reviewed |
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Materia(s):
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial
-Machine translating
-ALGORITHM
-Traducció automàtica |
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