1. Beyond Human-Only: Evaluating Human-Machine Collaboration for Collecting High-Quality Translation Data
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Liu, Zhongtao, Riley, Parker, Deutsch, Daniel, Lui, Alison, Niu, Mengmeng, Shah, Apu, and Freitag, Markus
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Computer Science - Computation and Language - Abstract
Collecting high-quality translations is crucial for the development and evaluation of machine translation systems. However, traditional human-only approaches are costly and slow. This study presents a comprehensive investigation of 11 approaches for acquiring translation data, including human-only, machineonly, and hybrid approaches. Our findings demonstrate that human-machine collaboration can match or even exceed the quality of human-only translations, while being more cost-efficient. Error analysis reveals the complementary strengths between human and machine contributions, highlighting the effectiveness of collaborative methods. Cost analysis further demonstrates the economic benefits of human-machine collaboration methods, with some approaches achieving top-tier quality at around 60% of the cost of traditional methods. We release a publicly available dataset containing nearly 18,000 segments of varying translation quality with corresponding human ratings to facilitate future research.
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- 2024