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Tag Archives: false positive
Proper nouns: handling some false positives
Now handling some kind of false positives related to proper nouns translation. As this type of error is somewhat widespread, it could result in a 0.2% increase in overall accuracy. Of interest in the present case: recall that ‘détroit’ is … Continue reading
Proper nouns: false positives again
Now we face false positives again: French proper noun ‘Détroit’ is translated erroneously into Strittonu when it shouls have been left untradslated, being a proper noun. The ambiguity of ‘Détroit’ lies in the fact that it can be translated either into: Détroit, … Continue reading
Evaluation of machine translation: why not self-evaluation?
Evaluation of machine translation is usually done via external tools (to cite some instances: ARPA, BLEU, METEOR, LEPOR, …). But let us investigate the idea of self-evaluation. For it seems that the software itself is capable of having an accurate … Continue reading
False positives
There are sometimes false positives. Some words should remain untranslated, notably proper names. Interestingly, it is due to the fact that the english word ‘transport’ is the same in french: transport (fr) = transport (en) = trasportu (co).
