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2022, Proceedings of the Seventh Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), Pages 569-577

MaTESe: Machine Translation Evaluation as a Sequence Tagging Problem (04b Atto di convegno in volume)

Perrella Stefano, Proietti Lorenzo, Scirè Alessandro, Campolungo Niccolò, Navigli Roberto

Starting from last year, WMT human evaluation has been performed within the Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) framework, where human annotators are asked to identify error spans in translations, alongside an error category and a severity. In this paper, we describe our submission to the WMT 2022 Metrics Shared Task, where we propose using the same paradigm for automatic evaluation: we present the MATESE metrics, which reframe machine translation evaluation as a sequence tagging problem. Our submission also includes a reference-free metric, denominated MATESE-QE. Despite the paucity of the openly available MQM data, our metrics obtain promising results, showing high levels of correlation with human judgements, while also enabling an evaluation that is interpretable. Moreover, MATESE-QE can also be employed in settings where it is infeasible to curate reference translations manually.
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