Results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task: Both characters and embeddings achieve good performance

Qingsong Ma, Ondřej Bojar, Yvette Graham


Abstract
This paper presents the results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task. We asked participants of this task to score the outputs of the MT systems involved in the WMT18 News Translation Task with automatic metrics. We collected scores of 10 metrics and 8 research groups. In addition to that, we computed scores of 8 standard metrics (BLEU, SentBLEU, chrF, NIST, WER, PER, TER and CDER) as baselines. The collected scores were evaluated in terms of system-level correlation (how well each metric’s scores correlate with WMT18 official manual ranking of systems) and in terms of segment-level correlation (how often a metric agrees with humans in judging the quality of a particular sentence relative to alternate outputs). This year, we employ a single kind of manual evaluation: direct assessment (DA).
Anthology ID:
W18-6450
Volume:
Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers
Month:
October
Year:
2018
Address:
Belgium, Brussels
Editors:
Ondřej Bojar, Rajen Chatterjee, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Yvette Graham, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Christof Monz, Matteo Negri, Aurélie Névéol, Mariana Neves, Matt Post, Lucia Specia, Marco Turchi, Karin Verspoor
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WMT
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SIGMT
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
671–688
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W18-6450
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-6450
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Qingsong Ma, Ondřej Bojar, and Yvette Graham. 2018. Results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task: Both characters and embeddings achieve good performance. In Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers, pages 671–688, Belgium, Brussels. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Results of the WMT18 Metrics Shared Task: Both characters and embeddings achieve good performance (Ma et al., WMT 2018)
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