Regressive Ensemble for Machine Translation Quality Evaluation

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Authors

ŠTEFÁNIK Michal NOVOTNÝ Vít SOJKA Petr

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of EMNLP 2021 Sixth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT 21)
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Faculty of Informatics

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Keywords machine translation; translation quality metrics; regressive ensemble for machine translation quality evaluation
Description This work introduces a simple regressive ensemble for evaluating machine translation quality based on a set of novel and established metrics. We evaluate the ensemble using a correlation to expert-based MQM scores of the WMT 2021 Metrics workshop. In both monolingual and zero-shot cross-lingual settings, we show a significant performance improvements over single systems. In the cross-lingual settings, we also demonstrate that an ensemble approach is well-applicable to unseen languages. Furthermore, we identify a strong reference-free baseline that consistently outperforms the commonly-used BLEU and METEOR measures and significantly improves our ensemble's performance.
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