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NMT Evaluation Needs to Change
Thread poster: Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
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Aug 25, 2018

NMT is sometimes nice at a sentence level, but not at the document level:

https://slator.com/academia/in-human-vs-machine-translation-compare-documents-not-sentences/
 
Gerard de Noord
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France
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Research should focus on document-level context instead of comparing output at the sentence level Aug 25, 2018

Yes, Samuel Läubli c.s. have a serious point, there.

Thanks for pointing to this article.
 
Jeff Allen
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MT evaluation metrics Oct 9, 2018

The evaluation metrics used at the MT conferences/workshops/challenges are very different from translation revision and evaluation procedures used by translators and translation agencies. That has been a significant problem for a very long time.

Catherine Howard
 


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