A human evaluation of English-Irish statistical and neural machine translation

no code implementations • EAMT 2020 • Meghan Dowling, Sheila Castilho, Joss Moorkens, Teresa Lynn, Andy Way

With official status in both Ireland and the EU, there is a need for high-quality English-Irish (EN-GA) machine translation (MT) systems which are suitable for use in a professional translation environment.

Machine Translation Translation

Leveraging backtranslation to improve machine translation for Gaelic languages

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Meghan Dowling, Teresa Lynn, Andy Way

Machine Translation Translation

Improving full-text search results on d\'uchas.ie using language technology

no code implementations • WS 2019 • Brian {\'O} Raghallaigh, Kevin Scannell, Meghan Dowling

SMT versus NMT: Preliminary comparisons for Irish

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Meghan Dowling, Teresa Lynn, Alberto Poncelas, Andy Way

Machine Translation NMT

Is all that Glitters in Machine Translation Quality Estimation really Gold?

no code implementations • COLING 2016 • Yvette Graham, Timothy Baldwin, Meghan Dowling, Maria Eskevich, Teresa Lynn, Lamia Tounsi

Human-targeted metrics provide a compromise between human evaluation of machine translation, where high inter-annotator agreement is difficult to achieve, and fully automatic metrics, such as BLEU or TER, that lack the validity of human assessment.

Machine Translation Translation