ProphetMT: A Tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language Authoring/Post-Editing Tool
Xiaofeng Wu, Jinhua Du, Qun Liu, Andy Way · 2016
This paper presents ProphetMT, a tree-based SMT-driven Controlled Language (CL) authoring and post-editing tool.ProphetMT employs the source-side rules in a translation model and provides them as auto-suggestions to users.Accordingly, one might say that users are writing in a 'Controlled Language' that is 'understood' by the computer.ProphetMT also allows users to easily attach structural information as they compose content.When a specific rule is selected, a partial translation is promptly generated on-the-fly with the help of the structural information.Our experiments conducted on English-to-Chinese show that our proposed ProphetMT system can not only better regularise an author's writing behaviour, but also significantly improve translation fluency which is vital to reduce the post-editing time.Additionally, when the writing and translation process is over, ProphetMT can provide an effective colour scheme to further improve the productivity of post-editors by explicitly featuring the relations between the source and target rules.