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MT Evaluation

Translations are evaluated along two dimensions:

  1. adequacy: how well the translation captures the exact meaning of the source sentence.
  2. fluency: how fluent the translation is in the target language.

The most accurate evaluations use human raters. An alternative is to do ranking: give the raters a pair of candidate translations, and ask them which one they prefer. While humans produce the best evaluations of machine translation output, running a human evaluation can be time consuming and expensive. For this reason automatic metrics are often used.

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Updated 2021-12-05

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