Pragmatics-based translation and MT evaluation
David Farwell, Stephen Helmreich · 2003
In this paper the authors wish to present a view of translation equivalence related to a pragmatics-based approach to machine translation. We will argue that current evaluation methods which assume that there is a predictable correspondence between language forms cannot adequately account for this view. We will then describe a method for objectively determining the relative equivalence of two texts. However, given the need for both an open world assumption and non-monotonic inferencing, such a method cannot be realistically implemented and therefore certain "classic " evaluation strategies will continue to be preferable as practical methods of evaluation. 1.