Microsoft Azure Translation

Question

I am building a translator machine using microsoft translator API and HUB. I am trying to build a Japanese to English translator, so I trained the system from japanese to english. I have trained some documents into my translator system. However, i got some confusion about the MT and reference.

My question is, why API translation from microsoft is different either with MT or Reference? I thought the API provided from microsoft equals to MT which will become Reference after the training? Could you give me some idea?

Answer 1

The Ref: text that you see is part of the training/test data has been provided. The MT text that you see is the translation of the same text that has been produced from the trained translation model. This is immediately after you have trained a system.

Once you have deployed a trained system, the MT text that you see will be the result of a translate API operation.

The current API translation that you see may be different because of a differently trained model being present there.