---
license: cc
configs:
- config_name: phase_1
  data_files: phase_1.json
- config_name: phase_2
  data_files: phase_2.json
task_categories:
- translation
language:
- en
- cs
tags:
- post editing
size_categories:
- 1K<n<10K
---

# Neural Machine Translation Quality and Post-Editing Performance

This is a repository for an experiment relating NMT quality and post-editing efforts, presented at EMNLP2021 ([presentation recording](https://youtu.be/rCuoUbmJ5Uk)).
Please cite the following [paper](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.801/) when you use this research:

```
@inproceedings{zouhar2021neural,
  title={Neural Machine Translation Quality and Post-Editing Performance},
  author={Zouhar, Vil{\'e}m and Popel, Martin and Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej and Tamchyna, Ale{\v{s}}},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  pages={10204--10214},
  year={2021},
  url={https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.801/}
}
```

You can [access the data on huggingface](https://huggingface.co/datasets/zouharvi/nmt-pe-effects):
```python3
from datasets import load_dataset
data_p1 = load_dataset("zouharvi/nmt-pe-effects", "phase_1")
data_p2 = load_dataset("zouharvi/nmt-pe-effects", "phase_2")
```

The first phase is the main one where we can see the effect of NMT quality on post-editing time.
The second phase is to estimate the quality of the first post-editing round.

The [code is also public](https://github.com/ufal/nmt-pe-effects-2021).