Metadata Records Machine Translation Combining Multi Engine Outputs With Limited Parallel Data

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dc.contributor.authorReyes Ayala, Brenda
dc.contributor.authorKnudson, Ryan
dc.contributor.authorChen, Jiangping
dc.contributor.authorCao, Gaohui
dc.contributor.authorWang, Xinyue
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T12:21:51Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T12:21:51Z
dc.date.issued2018-01-01
dc.descriptionOne way to facilitate Multilingual Information Access (MLIA) for digital libraries is to generate multilingual metadata records by applying Machine Translation (MT) techniques. Current online MT services are available and affordable, but are not always effective for creating multilingual metadata records. In this study, we implemented 3 different MT strategies and evaluated their performance when translating English metadata records to Chinese and Spanish. These strategies included combining MT results from 3 online MT systems (Google, Bing, and Yahoo!) with and without additional linguistic resources, such as manually-generated parallel corpora, and metadata records in the two target languages obtained from international partners. The open-source statistical MT platform Moses was applied to design and implement the three translation strategies. Human evaluation of the MT results using adequacy and fluency demonstrated that two of the strategies produced higher quality translations than individual online MT systems for both languages. Especially, adding small, manually-generated parallel corpora of metadata records significantly improved translation performance. Our study suggested an effective and efficient MT approach for providing multilingual services for digital collections.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/r3-kj17-8j23
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectmachine translation
dc.subjectmetadata
dc.subjectmultilingual information access
dc.subjectdigital libraries
dc.titleMetadata Records Machine Translation Combining Multi Engine Outputs With Limited Parallel Data
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
ual.jupiterAccesshttp://terms.library.ualberta.ca/public

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