Study on an impersonal evaluation system for English-Chinese translation based on semantic understanding.

Human evaluations of translation are extensive but expensive. Human evaluations can take weeks to finish and involve human labor that cannot be reused. This paper proposes a method of automatic translation evaluation that is quick, inexpensive, and correlates highly with human evaluation. It uses na...

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Publicado en:Perspectives: Studies in Translatology Vol. 22; no. 2; pp. 242 - 255
Autores principales: Ke, Xiaohua, Ma, Qinghua
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd 2014
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        Semantic differential technique
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