(715.pdf) IMPROVING ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL COURSES VIA AUTOMATIC MACHINE TRANSLATION -NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN POST-EDITING

摘要

BTS - Bologna Translation Service - is an ICT PSP EU-funded project which specialises in theautomatic translation of study programmes from 7 languages (German, Spanish, Finnish, French,Dutch, Portuguese, and Turkish) to English, and from English to Mandarin Chinese. At the core of theBTS framework are several machine translation (MT) engines through which web-based translationservices are offered. The fully integrated BTS architecture includes a translation system that couplesrule-based and statistical MT with automatic post-editing (APE). In this paper, we describe the buildingof the automatic post-editing systems for Spanish and Portuguese and the results achieved. We alsoprovide a comparison between the quality of the initial (baseline) systems, advanced systems andresults obtained after incorporating the post-editing modules. Finally we provide insight into plannedfuture work.