Evaluating MT with Translations or Translators. What is the Difference?
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This paper describes a project on building a Machine Translation system for television and film subtitles. We report on the specific properties of the text genre, the language pair SwedishDanish, and the large training corpus. We focus on the evaluation of the system output against independent and post-edited translations. We show that evaluation results against post-edited translations are higher by a margin of up to 19 points BLEU score.
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