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AI System Cuts Translation Editing Time By 30%

AI System Cuts Translation Editing Time by 30%: QE4PE predicts machine translation errors, reducing post-editing effort by 12-30%. Practical application over academic metrics.

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QE4PE introduces a word-level quality estimation system specifically for human post-editing of machine translations
System predicts which words in machine translation output need editing by humans
Uses a two-stage approach: first trains on synthetic data, then fine-tunes on real human post-edits
Achieves significant improvement ove...