Using Bilingual Patents for Translation Training

John Lee; Benjamin Tsou; Tianyuan Cai

COLING 2020main3 citations

Using Bilingual Patents for Translation Training

Abstract

While bilingual corpora have been instrumental for machine translation, their utility for training translators has been less explored. We investigate the use of bilingual corpora as pedagogical tools for translation in the technical domain. In a user study, novice translators revised Chinese translations of English patents through bilingual concordancing. Results show that concordancing with an in-domain bilingual corpus can yield greater improvement in translation quality of technical terms than a general-domain bilingual corpus.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{lee-etal-2020-using-bilingual,
    title = "Using Bilingual Patents for Translation Training",
    author = "Lee, John  and
      Tsou, Benjamin  and
      Cai, Tianyuan",
    editor = "Scott, Donia  and
      Bel, Nuria  and
      Zong, Chengqing",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = dec,
    year = "2020",
    address = "Barcelona, Spain (Online)",
    publisher = "International Committee on Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.309/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.309",
    pages = "3461--3466"
}