Xiaolei Lu
List of John Benjamins publications in which Xiaolei Lu is involved.
Articles
2026 Applying n -gram-based evaluation metrics to assess human interpreting: A battery of replications with internal meta‑analysis Interpreting 28:1, pp. 58–90 | Article
We have recently witnessed a number of studies conducted to employ n-gram-based machine-translation evaluation metrics such as BLEU to assess human interpreting automatically. A major limitation of this research lies in the non-probabilistic sampling of a limited number of renditions.… read more
2023 Use of statistical methods in translation and interpreting research: A longitudinal quantitative analysis of eleven peer-reviewed journals (2000–2020) Target 35:4, pp. 483–513 | Article
The study reported on in the article examines the patterns and trends of statistical analysis in translation and interpreting (T&I) research, based on a longitudinal quantitative analysis of more than 3300 research articles sampled from eleven leading T&I journals (2000–2020). This… read more
2023 Automatic assessment of spoken-language interpreting based on machine-translation evaluation metrics: A multi-scenario exploratory study Interpreting 25:1, pp. 109–143 | Article
Automated metrics for machine translation (MT) such as BLEU are customarily used because they are quick to compute and sufficiently valid to be useful in MT assessment. Whereas the instantaneity and reliability of such metrics are made possible by automatic computation based on predetermined… read more