2020
COLING
COLING 2020
Using Bilingual Patents for Translation Training
Abstract
AbstractWhile bilingual corpora have been instrumental for machine translation, their utility for training translators has been less explored. We investigate the use of bilingual corpora as pedagogical tools for translation in the technical domain. In a user study, novice translators revised Chinese translations of English patents through bilingual concordancing. Results show that concordancing with an in-domain bilingual corpus can yield greater improvement in translation quality of technical terms than a general-domain bilingual corpus.
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Keyword Pioneer
— translation training
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Cross-Pollinator
— Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science, Data Science & Analytics, Deep Learning, Interdisciplinary, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization, Natural Language Processing, Speech & Audio