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MSLC24: further challenges for metrics on a wide landscape of translation quality

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AuthorSearch for: 1ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1647-584X; Search for: 1ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6147-9631; Search for: 1ORCID identifier: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8714-7846
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  1. National Research Council of Canada. Digital Technologies
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ConferenceNinth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24), November 15-16, 2024, Miami, Florida, USA
Abstract
In this second edition of the Metric Score Landscape Challenge (MSLC), we examine how automatic metrics for machine translation perform on a wide variety of machine translation output, ranging from very low quality systems to the types of high-quality systems submitted to the General MT shared task at WMT. We also explore metric results on specific types of data, such as empty strings, wrong- or mixed-language text, and more. We raise several alarms about inconsistencies in metric scores, some of which can be resolved by increasingly explicit instructions for metric use, while others highlight technical flaws.
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  • Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24) (15 November 2024): 475–491.
LanguageEnglish
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