An interactive machine translation system with online learning

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Ortiz-Martínez;Luis A. Leiva;Vicent Alabau;Ismael García-Varea;Francisco Casacuberta

  • Affiliations:
  • Universitat Politècnica de València;Universitat Politècnica de València;Universitat Politècnica de València;Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha;Universitat Politècnica de València

  • Venue:
  • HLT '11 Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies: Systems Demonstrations
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

State-of-the-art Machine Translation (MT) systems are still far from being perfect. An alternative is the so-called Interactive Machine Translation (IMT) framework, where the knowledge of a human translator is combined with the MT system. We present a statistical IMT system able to learn from user feedback by means of the application of online learning techniques. These techniques allow the MT system to update the parameters of the underlying models in real time. According to empirical results, our system outperforms the results of conventional IMT systems. To the best of our knowledge, this online learning capability has never been provided by previous IMT systems. Our IMT system is implemented in C++, JavaScript, and ActionScript; and is publicly available on the Web.