The Effect of Source Analysis on Translation Confidence

Lecture notes in computer sciencePublished 1 January 2000

Arendse Bernth, Michael C. McCord

DOI10.1007/3-540-39965-8_9

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The design of such a confidence index is described, with focus on the contribution of source analysis, which plays a crucial role in many MT systems, including the authors'.

Abstract

Translations produced by an MT system can automatically be assigned a number that reflects the MT system's confidence in their quality. We describe the design of such a confidence index, with focus on the contribution of source analysis, which plays a crucial role in many MT systems, including ours. Various problematic areas of source analysis are identified, and their impact on the overall confidence index is given. We will describe two methods of training the confidence index, one by hand-tuning of the heuristics, the other by linear regression analysis.

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