A review of translation tools from a post-editing perspective
Lucas Nunes Vieira, Lucia Specia · Bristol Research (University of Bristol) · 2011
Machine Translation (MT) has experi-enced remarkable improvements and con-sequently grown in popularity of late. It now functions not only as an end in itself but also as a valuable asset to be exploited by translators in the promising practice of post-editing the outcome of MT sys-tems, which can yield faster and some-times more accurate results. Most sys-tems, however, were not originally de-signed having translators envisaged as po-tential users, which leaves a high demand for tools capable of catering for this new translation modality. With the purpose of showcasing what researchers and the in-dustry have to offer in that respect, this study provides a review of a number of currently available translation tools from the perspective of translation post-editing. We have selected and described toolkits according to a set of criteria, highlight-ing main differences and similarities be-tween them and also making mention of desirable features that have not been sat-isfactorily presented by any of the toolkits analysed. 1