评估瑞士雪崩公报的全自动多语言翻译
Evaluating the fully automatic multi-language translation of the Swiss avalanche bulletin
摘要：
瑞士雪崩公告每天用四种语言发布两次。由于缺乏可用于手动翻译的时间，基于预定义短语的目录和这些短语如何组合以产生句子的预定规则，采用全自动翻译系统。该系统能够自动将这些句子从德语翻译成目标语言法语、意大利语和英语，而无需随后的校对或更正。我们的短语目录仅限于一个小的子语言。预计每日翻译费用的减少将在几年内抵消最初的开发费用。经过两个冬季的运作，我们在这里评估所产生的文本的质量的基础上进行评估，其中参与者从两个来源，短语目录与手工编写和翻译的文本的真实危险描述的评价。平均识别率为55%，用户几乎无法区分这两种类型的文本，并且对它们的语言质量给出类似的评级。总的来说，目录系统的输出可以被认为几乎等同于雪崩预报员编写的文本，然后由专业翻译人员手动翻译。此外，预报员宣布，该系统在有限的时间内以足够的准确度捕捉到了所有相关情况。
英文摘要：
The Swiss avalanche bulletin is produced twice a day in four languages. Due to the lack of time available for manual translation, a fully automated translation system is employed, based on a catalogue of predefined phrases and predetermined rules of how these phrases can be combined to produce sentences. The system is able to automatically translate such sentences from German into the target languages French, Italian and English without subsequent proofreading or correction. Our catalogue of phrases is limited to a small sublanguage. The reduction of daily translation costs is expected to offset the initial development costs within a few years. After being operational for two winter seasons, we assess here the quality of the produced texts based on an evaluation where participants rate real danger descriptions from both origins, the catalogue of phrases versus the manually written and translated texts. With a mean recognition rate of 55%, users can hardly distinguish between the two types of texts, and give similar ratings with respect to their language quality. Overall, the output from the catalogue system can be considered virtually equivalent to a text written by avalanche forecasters and then manually translated by professional translators. Furthermore, forecasters declared that all relevant situations were captured by the system with sufficient accuracy and within the limited time available.
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