CONFIDENCE-DRIVEN REWRITING OF SOURCE TEXTS FOR IMPROVED TRANSLATION

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of improving translation quality.SOLUTION: A source text string is translated with a machine translation system to generate a first target text string in a second natural language. A translation confidence for the source text string is computed, on the basis of the first target text string. At least one alternative text string is generated, where possible, in a first natural language by automatically rewriting the source string. Each alternative string is translated to generate a second target text string in the second natural language. A translation confidence is computed for the alternative text string, on the basis of the second target string. On the basis of the computed translation confidences, one of the alternative text strings may be selected as a candidate replacement for the source text string and may be proposed to a user on a graphical user interface.