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Machine translation (MT) encompasses a variety of methodologies aimed at enhancing the accuracy of translations. In contrast, the process of human-generated translation relies on a wide range of translation techniques, which are crucial for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Fan Zhou , Vincent Vandeghinste

Evaluation plays a vital role in checking the quality of MT output. It is done either manually or automatically. Manual evaluation is very time consuming and subjective, hence use of automatic metrics is done most of the times. This paper…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-19 Aditi Kalyani , Hemant Kumud , Shashi Pal Singh , Ajai Kumar

Fixed length summarization aims at generating summaries with a preset number of words or characters. Most recent researches incorporate length information with word embeddings as the input to the recurrent decoding unit, causing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Zhongyi Yu , Zhenghao Wu , Hao Zheng , Zhe XuanYuan , Jefferson Fong , Weifeng Su

Effective summarisation evaluation metrics enable researchers and practitioners to compare different summarisation systems efficiently. Estimating the effectiveness of an automatic evaluation metric, termed meta-evaluation, is a critically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xiang Dai , Sarvnaz Karimi , Biaoyan Fang

As research on machine translation moves to translating text beyond the sentence level, it remains unclear how effective automatic evaluation metrics are at scoring longer translations. In this work, we first propose a method for creating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Daniel Deutsch , Juraj Juraska , Mara Finkelstein , Markus Freitag

Evaluation plays a crucial role in development of Machine translation systems. In order to judge the quality of an existing MT system i.e. if the translated output is of human translation quality or not, various automatic metrics exist. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Aditi Kalyani , Hemant Kumud , Shashi Pal Singh , Ajai Kumar , Hemant Darbari

Sentence representations can capture a wide range of information that cannot be captured by local features based on character or word N-grams. This paper examines the usefulness of universal sentence representations for evaluating the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Hiroki Shimanaka , Tomoyuki Kajiwara , Mamoru Komachi

We aim to shed light on the strengths and weaknesses of the newly introduced neural machine translation paradigm. To that end, we conduct a multifaceted evaluation in which we compare outputs produced by state-of-the-art neural machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-01-12 Antonio Toral , Víctor M. Sánchez-Cartagena

With the growth of interpreting technologies, from remote interpreting and Computer-Aided Interpreting to automated speech translation and interpreting avatars, there is now a high demand for ways to quickly and efficiently measure the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Jonathan Downie , Joss Moorkens

Automated source code summarization is a popular software engineering research topic wherein machine translation models are employed to "translate" code snippets into relevant natural language descriptions. Most evaluations of such models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Junayed Mahmud , Fahim Faisal , Raihan Islam Arnob , Antonios Anastasopoulos , Kevin Moran

In this work, we propose and evaluate the feasibility of a two-stage pipeline to evaluate literary machine translation, in a fine-grained manner, from English to Korean. The results show that our framework provides fine-grained,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Sheikh Shafayat , Dongkeun Yoon , Woori Jang , Jiwoo Choi , Alice Oh , Seohyon Jung

Human evaluation is a critical component in machine translation system development and has received much attention in text translation research. However, little prior work exists on the topic of human evaluation for speech translation,…

Large language models (LLMs) struggle with precise length control, particularly in zero-shot settings. We conduct a comprehensive study evaluating LLMs' length control capabilities across multiple measures and propose practical methods to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Fabian Retkowski , Alexander Waibel

Machine translation is research based area where evaluation is very important phenomenon for checking the quality of MT output. The work is based on the evaluation of English to Urdu Machine translation. In this research work we have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-10-03 Vaishali Gupta , Nisheeth Joshi , Iti Mathur

While automatic metrics drive progress in Machine Translation (MT) and Text Summarization (TS), existing metrics have been developed and validated almost exclusively for English and other high-resource languages. This narrow focus leaves…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Amir Hossein Yari , Kalmit Kulkarni , Ahmad Raza Khan , Fajri Koto

Automatic text summarization has achieved high performance in high-resourced languages like English, but comparatively less attention has been given to summarization in less-resourced languages. This work compares a variety of different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Chester Palen-Michel , Constantine Lignos

Abstractive summarization at controllable lengths is a challenging task in natural language processing. It is even more challenging for domains where limited training data is available or scenarios in which the length of the summary is not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Ritesh Sarkhel , Moniba Keymanesh , Arnab Nandi , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Our ability to efficiently and accurately evaluate the quality of machine translation systems has been outrun by the effectiveness of current language models--which limits the potential for further improving these models on more challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Syeda Jannatus Saba , Steven Skiena

Can we improve machine translation (MT) with LLMs by rewriting their inputs automatically? Users commonly rely on the intuition that well-written text is easier to translate when using off-the-shelf MT systems. LLMs can rewrite text in many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Dayeon Ki , Marine Carpuat

The recent explosion in work on neural topic modeling has been criticized for optimizing automated topic evaluation metrics at the expense of actual meaningful topic identification. But human annotation remains expensive and time-consuming.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Hamed Rahimi , Jacob Louis Hoover , David Mimno , Hubert Naacke , Camelia Constantin , Bernd Amann