Testing Students Understanding of Complex Transfer

Courses on Machine Translation MT need to be tailored to di erent sets of students with di ering skills and demands Kenny Way Nevertheless any contemporary course on MT ought to equip students with at least a super cial knowledge of the di erences between rule based and statistical MT direct and indirect approaches and transfer based and interlingual systems With regard to this latter distinction the issue of complex transfer is an integral com ponent to this section of a course on MT whether this be to computational linguists translators or language students This paper presents a method of assessing the level of understanding of the issues pertaining to complex transfer for nal year undergraduates studying a degree pro gramme in Computational Linguistics The intention is that this methodology may contribute to a suite of exercises which may be used by other instructors in Machine Translation