@inproceedings{5eab51afe325471fbdd6effdb1a148cb,
title = "BiVert: Bidirectional Vocabulary Evaluation using Relations for Machine Translation",
abstract = "Neural machine translation (NMT) has progressed rapidly in the past few years, promising improvements and quality translations for different languages. Evaluation of this task is crucial to determine the quality of the translation. Overall, insufficient emphasis is placed on the actual sense of the translation in traditional methods. We propose a bidirectional semantic-based evaluation method designed to assess the sense distance of the translation from the source text. This approach employs the comprehensive multilingual encyclopedic dictionary BabelNet. Through the calculation of the semantic distance between the source and its back translation of the output, our method introduces a quantifiable approach that empowers sentence comparison on the same linguistic level. Factual analysis shows a strong correlation between the average evaluation scores generated by our method and the human assessments across various machine translation systems for English-German language pair. Finally, our method proposes a new multilingual approach to rank MT systems without the need for parallel corpora.",
keywords = "Graph Sense, Machine Translation, Multilingual, Quality Estimation",
author = "Carinne Cherf and Yuval Pinter",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2024 ELRA Language Resource Association: CC BY-NC 4.0.; Joint 30th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 14th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 ; Conference date: 20-05-2024 Through 25-05-2024",
year = "2024",
month = jan,
day = "1",
language = "English",
series = "2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
pages = "2410--2420",
editor = "Nicoletta Calzolari and Min-Yen Kan and Veronique Hoste and Alessandro Lenci and Sakriani Sakti and Nianwen Xue",
booktitle = "2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC-COLING 2024 - Main Conference Proceedings",
}