TY  - GEN
ID  - cogprints5627
UR  - http://cogprints.org/5627/
A1  - Simard, Michel
A1  - Goutte, Cyril
A1  - Isabelle, Pierre
Y1  - 2007///
N2  - We propose to use a statistical phrase-based machine translation system in a post-editing task: the system takes as input raw machine translation output (from a commercial rule-based MT system), and produces post-edited target-language text.  We report on experiments that were performed on data collected in precisely such a setting: pairs of raw MT output and their manually post-edited versions.  In our evaluation, 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), 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.
KW  - Machine Translation
KW  -  Post-editing
KW  -  Statistical MT
KW  -  Phrase-based MT
TI  - Statistical Phrase-based Post-editing
SP  - 508
AV  - public
EP  - 515
ER  -