Quality Estimation of Machine Translated Texts based on Direct Evidence Approach

Vibhuti Kumari, Narayana Murthy Kavi


Abstract
Quality Estimation task deals with the estimation of quality of translations produced by a Machine Translation system without depending on Reference Translations. A number of approaches have been suggested over the years. In this paper we show that the parallel corpus used as training data for training the MT system holds direct clues for estimating the quality of translations produced by the MT system. Our experiments show that this simple, direct and computationally efficient method holds promise for quality estimation of translations produced by any purely data driven machine translation system.
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2024.icon-1.16
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Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2024
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AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India
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Sobha Lalitha Devi, Karunesh Arora
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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139–148
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Vibhuti Kumari and Narayana Murthy Kavi. 2024. Quality Estimation of Machine Translated Texts based on Direct Evidence Approach. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 139–148, AU-KBC Research Centre, Chennai, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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