Using Bilingual Patents for Translation Training

John Lee; Benjamin Tsou; Tianyuan Cai

doi:10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.309

Using Bilingual Patents for Translation Training

Department of Linguistics and Translation

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
Publisher	International Committee on Computational Linguistics
Pages	3461–3466
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-952148-27-9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.309
Publication status	Published - 8 Dec 2020
Event	The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2020) - Online, Barcelona, Spain Duration: 8 Dec 2020 → 13 Dec 2020 Conference number: 28 https://coling2020.org/

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Conference	The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2020)
Abbreviated title	ICCL 2020
Country/Territory	Spain
City	Barcelona
Period	8/12/20 → 13/12/20
Internet address	https://coling2020.org/

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Lee, J, Tsou, B & Cai, T 2020, Using Bilingual Patents for Translation Training. in Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. International Committee on Computational Linguistics, pp. 3461–3466, The 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING'2020), Barcelona, Spain, 8/12/20. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.309

Using Bilingual Patents for Translation Training. / Lee, John; Tsou, Benjamin; Cai, Tianyuan.
Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2020. p. 3461–3466.

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