How we train post-editors - Yongpeng Wei (Lingosail)

1. Yongpeng WEI
Lingosail
2017.02.28
TAUS Translation Technology Showcase
@LocWorld Shenzhen 2017

2. Products & Service
• Translation Technology
• Corpus / Term-base Construction
• Vertical MT Training
• On-line CAT Customization
• Translation (MTPE) Service
• MTPE production
• MTPE training
Markets
• Intellectual Properties
• Cross-border E-Commerce
• …

3. Easier
Entry
• Lower requirement
for domain
knowledge
• Lower cost of
learning and self-
improvement for
translators
Higher
Efficiency
• Speed-up search and
verification process
• Reduce repetitions
• Reduce typing time
• Reduce elementary
mistakes
More Scalable
Management
• Unify workflow
• Increase
standardization

4.  Better Usability
◦ Vertical domain adaption and optimization
◦ Terminology/Knowledge embedding
◦ Quality confidence grading
 More interactive
◦ Real-time interactions (e.g. Input Method)
◦ Feedback from end-users
◦ Dynamic user behaviors
 Lower deploying threshold
◦ Affordable computing capability (esp. for Neural MT)
◦ Less corpus requirement
◦ Acknowledged Quality Metrics

5.  Confidence is Gold
◦ Understanding MT
◦ Active attitude
◦ Controlling the process
 Quality perception is essential
◦ Understanding user scenario and requirements
◦ Identifying error levels
◦ Searching and verifying
 Knowledge management is valuable
◦ Terminology acquisition, management and share
◦ Domain knowledge accumulation and reuse

6.  Part1 Live Lectures
◦ Machine Translation principle and application
◦ Post-Editing Guidelines
 Part2 On-line Videos
◦ Guidelines for patent abstract translation(CE)
◦ Quality Standards for patent abstract translation
◦ TMS operation guides
◦ Terminology Review operation guides
◦ Terminology searching and verifying skills
 Parts3 Exercises
◦ Translation (Post-editing) Tasks
◦ Error Correction Tasks
◦ Translation Comparison(PK) Tasks
◦ Terminology Review Tasks
 Parts4 Simulative Project
◦ Group Project &Discussion
Confidence
Quality
Knowledge

8. Auto-
Grading
Auto-
Commenting

9. Source
Translation
with error
Correction
Reference

10. Source
Translation 1
Reasons
Translation 2
Your Choice
Teacher’s
Choice

11. Sentence Pair
Examples
Term Pair
Extracted
Review
decision

12.  Patent PE Course for example
◦ Hundreds participants last year
◦ Many of them come from MTI schools
◦ Most of them have no technical background
◦ Training lasts: 6-8 weeks
 Training Results
Pre-Train Trained
MT+PE 1-2pcs/h 5-6pcs/h
Traditional 1-2pcs/h 3-4pcs/h
Speed
Quality

13.  PE courses for other domains
 PE courses for professionals & technical
 Automatic/Semi-automatic reviews
 More interactive MT
 Knowledge Graph construction and
sharing
 …

14. Thank you!
Contact me：weiyongpeng@lingosail.com