Applicability and application of machine translation quality metrics in the patent field

This article provides a guide for readers interested in deepening their knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the different machine translation (MT) quality metrics, and presents a methodology and tooling developed respectively by LexisNexis® and its MT provider Asia Online™ as part of a human quality assessment framework for patent translation. The methodology is designed specifically to compensate for the shortcomings of automated evaluation.

► Assessment of different MT quality metrics. ► Problems and approaches to this in the patent field. ► Merits and challenges of automated evaluation. ► Approach using human evaluation of MT explained and tested.