Evaluating intelligibility in human translation and machine translation

Norwati Md Yusof, and Saadiyah Darus, and Mohd Juzaiddin Ab Aziz, (2017) Evaluating intelligibility in human translation and machine translation. 3L; Language,Linguistics and Literature,The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies., 23 (4). pp. 251-264. ISSN 0128-5157

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Abstract

Research in automated translation mostly aims to develop translation systems to further enhance the transfer of knowledge and information. This need of transfer has brought machine translation (MT) to show major steps in translation software development and encourages further research in various MT related areas. However, there have been no focused investigations of criteria for evaluation particularly evaluation that considers human evaluators and the reconciliation of human translation (HT) and MT. Thus, focusing on two attributes for evaluation, namely Accuracy and Intelligibility, a study was conducted to investigate translation evaluation criteria for content and language transfer through reconciliation of HT and MT evaluation based on human evaluators’ perception. The study focused on human evaluators’ expectation of range of criteria for HT and MT under the two attributes and the evaluation was tested on a machine system to observe the system’s performance in terms of Accuracy and Intelligibility. This paper reports the range of criteria to evaluate translation in terms of Intelligibility as expected by human evaluators in HT and MT in terms of content and language transfer. The study uses a mixed method approach with soft data and hard data collection. The results demonstrate that the range of each criteria identified for content evaluation in HT is expected to be higher than in MT. The implications of the study are described to provide an understanding of evaluation for human and automated translation in terms of Intelligibility.

Item Type:Article
Keywords:Criteria; Evaluation; Intelligibility; Human translation; Machine translation
Journal:3L ; Journal of Language, Linguistics and Literature
ID Code:12869
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Deposited On:02 May 2019 08:19
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