RESULTS: DEMT Evaluation Report (feat. Anne-Maj van der Meer, Amir Kamran, & Achim Ruopp)

The results are in: TAUS Date-enhanced Machine Translation (DeMT™) improves MT output of the major MT engines with an average of 25% in BLEU scores. In this session we'll discuss the process of creating gold standard test training sets as well as the results and findings of external-party evaluations on these datasets.

For further reading before or after the event, you can check out the TAUS DEMT Evaluation Report, which is publicly available here: https://info.taus.net/taus-demt-evalu...

About TAUS: TAUS was founded in 2005 as a think tank with a mission to automate and innovate translation. We began by evangelizing the simple idea that machine translation is a useful tool for the translation industry and emphasized the need for innovation, open platforms and cross-industry cooperation. Ideas transformed into actions. TAUS became the language data network offering the largest industry-shared repository of data, deep know-how in language engineering and a network of Human Language Project workers around the globe.

Their mission today is to empower global enterprises and their service and technology providers with data solutions that help them to communicate in all languages, faster, better and more efficiently.

About Anne-Maj van der Meer: Ann-Maj is the Director of Strategic Partnerships at TAUS, educating the industry on how to get the most out of their data.

About Achim Ruopp: Achim is the owner of Polyglot Technology LLC, providing machine translatio consulting and independent analysis of engine performance.

About Amir Kamran: Amir is the Head of NLP at TAUS. He is an experienced researcher in the areas of object oriented design, computational linguistics, web application development, and computer science.

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