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Time-Constrained Machine Translation

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Machine Translation and the Information Soup (AMTA 1998)

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This paper defines the class of time-constrained applications: applications in which the user has limited time to process the system output. This class is differentiated from real-time systems, where it is production time rather than comprehension time that is constrained. Examples of time-constrained MT applications include the translation of multi-party dialogue and the translation of closed-captions. The constraints on comprehension time in such systems have significant implications for the system’s objectives, its design, and its evaluation. In this paper we outline these challenges and discuss how they have been met in an English-Spanish MT system designed to translate the closed-captions used on television.

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  1. Natural Language Lab, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada, V5A 1S6

    Janine Toole, Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Dan Fass & Paul McFetridge

  2. TCC Communications, 100-6722 Oldfield Road, Victoria, BC, Canada, V8M 2A3

    Janine Toole, Davide Turcato, Fred Popowich, Dan Fass & Paul McFetridge

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  1. Computing Research Lab, New Mexico State University, Box 30001 / 3CRL, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA

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  2. SYSTRAN Inc., 7855 Fay Avenue, Suite 300, P.O. Box 907, La Jolla, CA, 92037, USA

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  3. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, 4676 Admiralty Way, Marina del Rey, CA, 90292-6695, USA

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Toole, J., Turcato, D., Popowich, F., Fass, D., McFetridge, P. (1998). Time-Constrained Machine Translation. In: Farwell, D., Gerber, L., Hovy, E. (eds) Machine Translation and the Information Soup. AMTA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1529. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-49478-2_10

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