Exploring the importance of source text in automatic post-editing for context-aware machine translation

Chaojun Wang, Christian Hardmeier, Rico Sennrich

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Abstrakt

Accurate translation requires documentlevel information, which is ignored by sentence-level machine translation. Recent work has demonstrated that document-level consistency can be improved with automatic post-editing (APE) using only targetlanguage (TL) information. We study an extended APE model that additionally integrates source context. A human evaluation of fluency and adequacy in EnglishRussian translation reveals that the model with access to source context significantly outperforms monolingual APE in terms of adequacy, an effect largely ignored by automatic evaluation metrics. Our results show that TL-only modelling increases fluency without improving adequacy, demonstrating the need for conditioning on source text for automatic post-editing. They also highlight blind spots in automatic methods for targeted evaluation and demonstrate the need for human assessment to evaluate document-level translation quality reliably.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelProceedings of the 23rd Nordic Conference on Computational Linguistics (NODALIDA)
ForlagLinköping University Electronic Press
Publikationsdato2021
Sider326-335
StatusUdgivet - 2021

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