?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Statistical+Phrase-based+Post-editing&rft.creator=Simard%2C+Michel&rft.creator=Goutte%2C+Cyril&rft.creator=Isabelle%2C+Pierre&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.description=We+propose+to+use+a+statistical+phrase-based+machine+translation+system+in+a+post-editing+task%3A+the+system+takes+as+input+raw+machine+translation+output+(from+a+commercial+rule-based+MT+system)%2C+and+produces+post-edited+target-language+text.++We+report+on+experiments+that+were+performed+on+data+collected+in+precisely+such+a+setting%3A+pairs+of+raw+MT+output+and+their+manually+post-edited+versions.++In+our+evaluation%2C+the+output+of+our+automatic+post-editing+(APE)+system+is+not+only+better+quality+than+the+rule-based+MT+(both+in+terms+of+the+BLEU+and+TER+metrics)%2C+it+is+also+better+than+the+output+of+a+state-of-the-art+phrase-based+MT+system+used+in+standalone+translation+mode.++These+results+indicate+that+automatic+post-editing+constitutes+a+simple+and+efficient+way+of+combining+rule-based+and+statistical+MT+technologies.%0A&rft.date=2007&rft.type=Conference+Paper&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5627%2F1%2FN07-1064.pdf&rft.identifier=++Simard%2C+Michel+and+Goutte%2C+Cyril+and+Isabelle%2C+Pierre++(2007)+Statistical+Phrase-based+Post-editing.++%5BConference+Paper%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5627%2F