MTranslatability

  • Authors:
  • Arendse Bernth;Claudia Gdaniec

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA E-mail: arendse@us.ibm.com;IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, USA E-mail: cgdaniec@us.ibm.com

  • Venue:
  • Machine Translation
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

Machine Translation of arbitrary input is difficult,but the output quality can be improved significantlyif writers create documents with MT in mind. Thisarticle deals with ``MTranslatability'' – translatabilityof texts by MT systems. It identifies characteristics oftext that decrease MTranslatability and suggests waysto improve them. It also illustrates the effect of writingfor MTranslatability by showing before-and-after picturesof output from various commercially available MT systems,and gives an overview of tools that help identify and correctthe problems.