Machine translation

Machine translation

The process of translating text from one language to another using computers instead of human translators.

Industry: Translation & localization

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alignment process

Translation & localization; Machine translation

There are two alignment processes. In corpus preparation, the alignment process creates aligned data. During training, the alignment process uses a program such as MGIZA++ to create word alignment ...

bleu score

Translation & localization; Machine translation

BLEU stands for BiLingual Eevaluation Understudy”. A BLEU score indicates how closely the token sequences in one set of data, such as machine translation output, correlate with (match) the token ...

bilingual evaluation understudy score

Translation & localization; Machine translation

Abbreviated as BLEU score, it indicates how closely the token sequences in one set of data, such as machine translation output, correlate with (match) the token sequences in another set of data, such ...

corpus preparation

Translation & localization; Machine translation

Corpus preparation is the general process to extract, transform, categorize various documents from their original purpose to and align the resulting data into a parallel corpus for training a ...

development (dev) set

Translation & localization; Machine translation

A pair of source and target language data, typically containing several thousands of pairs used in the tuning process.

edit distance

Translation & localization; Machine translation

In machine translation post editing, edit distance is a measurement of the difference between two pieces of text or sentences. Informally, the edit distance between two sentences is the minimum ...