Introducing Quality Estimation to Machine Translation Post-editing Workflow: An Empirical Study on Its Usefulness

This preliminary study investigates the usefulness of sentence-level Quality Estimation (QE) in English-Chinese Machine Translation Post-Editing (MTPE), focusing on its impact on post-editing speed and student translators' perceptions. It also explores the interaction effects between QE and MT quality, as well as between QE and translation expertise. The findings reveal that QE significantly reduces post-editing time. The examined interaction effects were not significant, suggesting that QE consistently improves MTPE efficiency across medium- and high-quality MT outputs and among student translators with varying levels of expertise. In addition to indicating potentially problematic segments, QE serves multiple functions in MTPE, such as validating translators' evaluations of MT quality and enabling them to double-check translation outputs. However, interview data suggest that inaccurate QE may hinder post-editing processes. This research provides new insights into the strengths and limitations of QE, facilitating its more effective integration into MTPE workflows to enhance translators' productivity.

Modus ponens and modus tollens for the compositional rule of inference with aggregation functions

The compositional rule of inference (CRI) proposed by Zadeh has been widely applied in artificial intelligence, control, data mining, image processing, decision making and so on. Recently, Li and Zeng [Li, D., Zeng, Q. Approximate reasoning with aggregation functions satisfying GMP rules, Artificial Intelligence Review (2022), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10136-1] shown an A-compositional rule of inference (ACRI) method in which generalizes the t-norm to any aggregation function in CRI method and studied its validity using GMP rules. In this paper, we continue to investigate the validity of ACRI method from a logical view and an interpolative view. Specifically, to discuss the modus ponens (MP) and modus tollens (MT) properties of ACRI method based on well-known fuzzy implications with aggregation functions.

MISO hierarchical inference engine with fuzzy implication satisfying I(A(x, y), z) = I(x, I(y, z))

Fuzzy inference engine, as one of the most important components of fuzzy systems, can obtain some meaningful outputs from fuzzy sets on input space and fuzzy rule base using fuzzy logic inference methods. In order to enhance the computational efficiency of fuzzy inference engine in multi-input-single-output (MISO) fuzzy systems, this paper aims mainly to investigate three MISO fuzzy hierarchial inference engines based on fuzzy implications satisfying the law of importation with aggregation functions (LIA). We firstly find some aggregation functions for well-known fuzzy implications such that they satisfy (LIA) with them. For a given aggregation function, the fuzzy implication which satisfies (LIA) with this aggregation function is then characterized. Finally, we construct three fuzzy hierarchical inference engines in MISO fuzzy systems applying aforementioned theoretical developments.