Demonstration of a Neural Machine Translation System with Online Learning for Translators (P19-3)
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Miguel Domingo, Mercedes García-Martínez, Amando Estela Pastor, Laurent Bié, Alexander Helle, Álvaro Peris, Francisco Casacuberta, Manuel Herranz Pérez
| Challenge: | a new method of "humanizing" automatic translations has been developed for the translation industry . a demonstration of an online learning system for machine translation in a production environment . |
| Approach: | They present a system which implements online learning for neural machine translation in a production environment. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system saves post-editing effort and adapts to a specific domain or user style. |
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