QUAK: A Synthetic Quality Estimation Dataset for Korean-English Neural Machine Translation

Sugyeong Eo, Chanjun Park, Hyeonseok Moon, Jaehyung Seo, Gyeongmin Kim, Jungseob Lee, Heuiseok Lim


Abstract
With the recent advance in neural machine translation demonstrating its importance, research on quality estimation (QE) has been steadily progressing. QE aims to automatically predict the quality of machine translation (MT) output without reference sentences. Despite its high utility in the real world, there remain several limitations concerning manual QE data creation: inevitably incurred non-trivial costs due to the need for translation experts, and issues with data scaling and language expansion. To tackle these limitations, we present QUAK, a Korean-English synthetic QE dataset generated in a fully automatic manner. This consists of three sub-QUAK datasets QUAK-M, QUAK-P, and QUAK-H, produced through three strategies that are relatively free from language constraints. Since each strategy requires no human effort, which facilitates scalability, we scale our data up to 1.58M for QUAK-P, H and 6.58M for QUAK-M. As an experiment, we quantitatively analyze word-level QE results in various ways while performing statistical analysis. Moreover, we show that datasets scaled in an efficient way also contribute to performance improvements by observing meaningful performance gains in QUAK-M, P when adding data up to 1.58M.
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2022.coling-1.460
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Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
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October
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2022
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Gyeongju, Republic of Korea
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Chu-Ren Huang, Hansaem Kim, James Pustejovsky, Leo Wanner, Key-Sun Choi, Pum-Mo Ryu, Hsin-Hsi Chen, Lucia Donatelli, Heng Ji, Sadao Kurohashi, Patrizia Paggio, Nianwen Xue, Seokhwan Kim, Younggyun Hahm, Zhong He, Tony Kyungil Lee, Enrico Santus, Francis Bond, Seung-Hoon Na
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Sugyeong Eo, Chanjun Park, Hyeonseok Moon, Jaehyung Seo, Gyeongmin Kim, Jungseob Lee, and Heuiseok Lim. 2022. QUAK: A Synthetic Quality Estimation Dataset for Korean-English Neural Machine Translation. In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 5181–5190, Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
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