The quality of Machine Translation output can vary a great deal from sentence to sentence, even for the same MT system. A facility for automatically rating the confidence in the MT system’s translation of each segment would vastly improve the usability of the MT system. Obviously, such a confidence index must depend in part on the differences between the source and target languages. In this paper we outline the nature of a translation confidence index (the TCI), which is tunable to different language-pair MT systems, and we then focus on the interesting contrastive linguistic issues in tuning the TCI to the case of English-German.
By: Arendse Bernth , Claudia Gdaniec
Published in: RC22403 in 2000
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