MIPE: A Metric Independent Pipeline for Effective Code-Mixed NLG Evaluation
Abstract
Code-mixing is a phenomenon of mixing words and phrases from two or more languages in a single utterance of speech and text. Due to the high linguistic diversity, code-mixing presents several challenges in evaluating standard natural language generation (NLG) tasks. Various widely popular metrics perform poorly with the code-mixed NLG tasks. To address this challenge, we present a metric independent evaluation pipeline MIPE that significantly improves the correlation between evaluation metrics and human judgments on the generated code-mixed text. As a use case, we demonstrate the performance of MIPE on the machine-generated Hinglish (code-mixing of Hindi and English languages) sentences from the HinGE corpus. We can extend the proposed evaluation strategy to other code-mixed language pairs, NLG tasks, and evaluation metrics with minimal to no effort.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2107.11534,
title = {MIPE: A Metric Independent Pipeline for Effective Code-Mixed NLG Evaluation},
author = {Ayush Garg and Sammed S Kagi and Vivek Srivastava and Mayank Singh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.11534},
year = {2021}
}