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translation hypothesis

A proposed translation of a source text into a target language that is generated by a machine translation system in order to help evaluate the quality of this system thanks to a metric.

In such cases, MT is used to obtain translation hypotheses, which must be supervised and corrected by a human agent in a post-editing (PE) stage. This working method is more productive than a completely manual translation, since the translator starts from an initial hypothesis that must be corrected. (Peris and al., Interactive neural machine translation, Computer Speech and Language, 2017)
The quality degree is expressed with a metric obtained by an objective method: the distance between the machine translation, called hypothesis, and the human translation, called reference. (Moré Lòpez, Machine Translationness: a Concept for Machine Translation Evaluation and Detection, 2015)

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