Here Are the Best-Performing Machine Translation Evaluation Metrics
New research reveals the best-performing machine translation evaluation metrics, identifies major challenges in metrics development, and suggests improvements.
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Google Research Brings ‘Massively Multilingual’ Machine Translation to 200+ Languages
How necessary is parallel data for improving machine translation quality for low-resource languages? Google researchers scale model with ‘pragmatic approach.’
Facebook (You Know, Meta) CTO Hypes WMT 2021 Win as ‘Truly Groundbreaking’
To be fair, this is the first-ever multilingual model to win the international machine translation contest. But major tech companies have been exploring multilingual models for years.
Here Are the Top 10 Most Influential Research Papers on Neural Machine Translation
The most-cited neural machine translation research papers show how NMT came to dominate the field — and how academia and industry’s interests have evolved.
Google Explores New Way to Improve Google Translate: Paraphrasing by Humans
Google study shows human-paraphrased reference translations and new evaluation metric, BLEUP, produce better translations. Findings to be integrated into consumer-facing products.
Yes, Now They Claim Machines ‘Outperform’ Human Translation in Adequacy
A group of AI researchers takes the perennial human vs. machine debate to the next level by claiming their system outperforms professional translators...in news, on adequacy (read on for more caveats).
Facebook Researchers Say Machine Translation Quality Estimation Lacking
New research suggests biases of QE datasets lead to guesstimates on machine translation quality. Researchers propose modified dataset, debut it at WMT 2020.
NMT for Subtitling Could Work Without Specialized Training, Study Finds
As demand for media loc strains suppliers, there is a case for automation. Research finds NMT might be used for subtitles without special training.
Amazon Pits Neural Machine Translation Framework Against Google, Facebook, Others
Though Amazon announced its open-source, sequence-to-sequence machine learning framework Sockeye would be available to all last July 2017, its researchers waited until December 2017 to file papers into Arxiv so they can test their creation against WMT2017’s best.
Machine Translation Researchers Set to Find Out Whose System Is Best
In early September, Copenhagen will become the center of the machine translation universe as hundreds of researchers gather in the Danish capital to learn whose system performs best.
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