CCEval: A Representative Evaluation Benchmark for the Chinese-centric Multilingual Machine Translation

Lianzhang Lou, Xi Yin, Yutao Xie, Yang Xiang


Abstract
The Chinese-centric Multilingual Machine Translation (MMT) has gained more importance recently due to increasing demands from international business development and cross-cultural exchanges. However, an important factor that limits the progress of this area is the lack of highly representative and high-quality evaluation benchmarks. To fill this gap, we propose CCEval, an impartial and representative Chinese-centric MMT evaluation dataset. This benchmark dataset consists of 2500 Chinese sentences we meticulously selected and processed, and covers more diverse linguistic features as compared to other MMT evaluation benchmarks. These sentences have been translated into 11 languages of various resource levels by professional translators via a rigorously controlled process pipeline to ensure their high quality. We conduct experiments to demonstrate our sampling methodology’s effectiveness in constructing evaluation datasets strongly correlated with human evaluations. The resulting dataset enables better assessments of the Chinese-centric MMT quality. Our CCEval benchmark dataset is available at https://bright.pcl.ac.cn/en/offlineTasks.
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2023.findings-emnlp.682
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10176–10184
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.682
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.682
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Lianzhang Lou, Xi Yin, Yutao Xie, and Yang Xiang. 2023. CCEval: A Representative Evaluation Benchmark for the Chinese-centric Multilingual Machine Translation. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 10176–10184, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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