Evaluation of Machine Translation Output for an Unknown Source Language: Report of an ISLE-Based Investigation
Keith J. Miller, Donna Gates, Nancy L. Underwood · 2001
It i s often assumed that knowledge of both the source and target languages is necessary in order to evaluate the output of a machine translation (MT) system. This paper reports on an experimental evaluation of Chinese-English MT and Spanish-English MT from output specifically designed for evaluators who do not read or speak Chinese or Spanish. An outline of the characteristics measured and evaluation follows.