How Much Information Does a Human Translator Add to the Original?
Barret Zoph, Marjan Ghazvininejad, Kevin K. Knight · 2015
We ask how much information a human translator adds to an original text, and we provide a bound.We address this question in the context of bilingual text compression: given a source text, how many bits of additional information are required to specify the target text produced by a human translator?We develop new compression algorithms and establish a benchmark task.