Workbench for Post-editing of Translations from English and Hindi to Dravidian Languages
Sobha Lalitha Devi, Pattabhi R. K. Rao, Vijay Sundar Ram · 2023
In this paper we discuss about the translator's workbench which provides the translator with various types of post-editing tools to facilitate the speeding up of the translation process.Post-editing is the process of correcting/ changing the machine generated translation to a syntactically and semantically correct translation.This work bench is specifically customized to handle the correction of translation from English and Hindi to Tamil and Malayalam from three machine translation systems, the Google unpaid version, Google paid version and Sampark System (Indian language to Indian Language MT system, Govt. of India).The tools in the workbench include the domain dictionaries, technical term translation correction, Grammatical correction modules where verbs are checked and corrected, Appropriate word selector with morph generator and interactive translation prediction where the users edits are automatically stored and predict if there is a similar error is encountered.We conducted a field trial of our post editor and it is found that it reduced the time taken to produce the final translation.This paper reports work in progress.