Review / Evaluation of Translation Software / Systems

Introduction: This is a list of review articles written by Jeff Allen on translation software and systems and software. It also includes information about the evaluation of translation systems, translation tool training, translation assessment, etc

Machine Translation (MT) software and system reviews that have been(co-)authored by Jeff Allen.

MT software and system reviews (in reverse chronological order, ie most recent to oldest)

ALLEN, Jeffrey. In progress. Review of @promt Professional 2004, Expert 2004 Machine Translation software.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. In progress. Review of Systran 5.0 Professional Premium Machine Translation software.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. In progress. Cross-system evaluation of several Machine Translation software and systems.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2004. Review of Pocket PROMT v4 Machine Translation software. In MultiLingual Computing & Technology. Number 68, Vol 15, Issue 8, December 2004. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Thomas WASSMER. 2004. Software review of @promt Professional 2003, Expert 2003. In MultiLingual Computing & Technology, Number 62 Volume 15 Issue 2. March 2004. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2003. Review of SYSTRAN 4.0 Premium Machine Translation software. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 58, Vol. 14, Issue 6. September 2003. Pp. 19-22. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Thomas WASSMER. 2003. Feature matrix of SYSTRAN 4.0 Personal, Standard, and Premium Machine Translation software. Web supplement to Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 58, Vol. 14, Issue 6. September 2003. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2002. Review of Reverso Pro 5 and Reverso Expert Machine Translation software. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 50, Vol. 13, Issue 6. September 2002. Pp. 18-21. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2001. Postediting: an integrated part of a translation software program (Reverso Pro 4). In Language International magazine, April 2001, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 26-29. click here to access the article in PDF format (in separate browser window).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2002. Review of "Repairing Texts: Empirical Investigations of Machine Translation Post-Editing Processes". (KRINGS Hans, edited by Geoffrey KOBY. 2001. Translated from German to English by Geoffrey Koby, Gregory Shreve, Katjz Mischerikow and Sarah Litzer) Translation Studies series. Ohio: Kent State University Press click here for the book abstract and ordering information. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 46. March 2002. Pp. 27-29. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Christopher HOGAN. 2000. Toward the development of a post-editing module for Machine Translation raw output (an evaluation and proposal for improvement of the European Commission SYSTRAN Machine Translation system). Presented at the Third International Controlled Language Applications Workshop (CLAW2000), held in Seattle, Washington, 29-30 April 2000. click here to download the article in MS Word format. Order proceedings from here for North America or here for Europe

ALLEN, Jeffrey, Violetta CAVALLI-SFORZA, and Robert FREDERKING. 1998. Review of AltaVista Babelfish Machine Translation online system. Internal Technical Report. Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1998. Testing and review of the DIPLOMAT Haitian Creole MT system. Internal Technical Report. Center for Machine Translation, Carnegie Mellon University. April 1998.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1995. Review of the Globalink MT software. Internal Technical Report. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 1995. Review of the Caterpillar KANT English-French MT system. Internal Technical Report. Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc.

MT user case studies

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2004. Case study: implementing Machine Translation for the translation of pre-sales marketing and post-sales softwrae deployment documentation. In proceedings of the 6th Biennal Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2004), Washington DC, USA, 28 Sept - 2 Oct 2004. To order the conference proceedings, go here.

NOTE: the pair of articles below are an example of a text that has been processed by MT software, and postedited.

ALLEN, Jeff. 2002. (English version) The Bible as a Resource for Translation Software: A proposal for Machine Translation (MT) development using an untapped language resource database. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 51, Vol. 13, Issue 7. October/November 2002. Pp. 40-45. click here to access the original English version of the article (in separate browser window).

ALLEN, Jeff. 2002. (Version française) La Bible comme Ressource pour les Logiciels de Traduction: Une proposition de développement des systèmes de traduction automatique (TA) en utilisant une ressource linguistique inexploitée. cliquer ici pour accéder à l'article.

MT and TM software / system tutorials (and instructional information)

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2004. Mastering Machine Translation output: MT dictionary building and postediting. Tutorial presented at the 6th Biennal Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA-2004), Washington DC, USA, 28 Sept - 2 Oct 2004. click here to access the article (in separate browser window).

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2003. Translation Software Training Tutorial: MT dictionary building and postediting with Reverso Pro 5 and Reverso Expert (Promt 5). Presented 8 July 2003 at Mycom France.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2003. Machine Translation Postediting. Tutorial presented at European Association for Machine Translation and Controlled Language Applications Workshop (EAMT/CLAW2003). 17 May 2003. Dublin City University, Ireland.

ALLEN, Jeffrey. 2003. Translation Software Tutorial: MT dictionary building and postediting with Reverso Pro 4 (Promt 98). Presented April 2003 at Life Agape International.

Allen, Jeffrey. 2003. Machine Translation Post-editing. In Computers and Translation: A Translators Guide. Edited by Harold Somers. Benjamins Translation Library, 35. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (ISBN 90 272 1640 1). click here for information on the book and chapter.

ALLEN, Jeffrey and Greg GOUZEV. 1996. Translation system training course: working with MT and TM systems . Peoria, Illinois: Technical Information Department, Caterpillar Inc. July 1996.

Contact information

Jeff Allen can be reached at j e f f . a l l e n @ m u l t i n g u a l . c o m or at j e f f . a l l e n @ f r e e . f r.