Translation quality assessment: A brief survey on manual and automatic methods

L Han, GJF Jones, AF Smeaton - arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03311, 2021 - arxiv.org
To facilitate effective translation modeling and translation studies, one of the crucial
questions to address is how to assess translation quality. From the perspectives of accuracy …

An overview on machine translation evaluation

L Han - arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.11027, 2022 - arxiv.org
Since the 1950s, machine translation (MT) has become one of the important tasks of AI and
development, and has experienced several different periods and stages of development …

Framework for handling rare word problems in neural machine translation system using multi-word expressions

KD Garg, S Shekhar, A Kumar, V Goyal, B Sharma… - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Machine Translation (MT) systems are now being improved with the use of an ongoing
methodology known as Neural Machine Translation (NMT). Natural language processing …

Measuring uncertainty in translation quality evaluation (TQE)

S Gladkoff, I Sorokina, L Han, A Alekseeva - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
From both human translators (HT) and machine translation (MT) researchers' point of view,
translation quality evaluation (TQE) is an essential task. Translation service providers (TSPs) …

HOPE: A task-oriented and human-centric evaluation framework using professional post-editing towards more effective MT evaluation

S Gladkoff, L Han - arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.13833, 2021 - arxiv.org
Traditional automatic evaluation metrics for machine translation have been widely criticized
by linguists due to their low accuracy, lack of transparency, focus on language mechanics …

Machine translation evaluation resources and methods: A survey

L Han - arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.04515, 2016 - arxiv.org
We introduce the Machine Translation (MT) evaluation survey that contains both manual and
automatic evaluation methods. The traditional human evaluation criteria mainly include the …

Chinese character decomposition for neural MT with multi-word expressions

L Han, GJF Jones, AF Smeaton, P Bolzoni - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
Chinese character decomposition has been used as a feature to enhance Machine
Translation (MT) models, combining radicals into character and word level models. Recent …

AlphaMWE: Construction of multilingual parallel corpora with MWE annotations

L Han, G Jones, A Smeaton - arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03783, 2020 - arxiv.org
In this work, we present the construction of multilingual parallel corpora with annotation of
multiword expressions (MWEs). MWEs include verbal MWEs (vMWEs) defined in the …

A Deep Analysis of the Impact of Multiword Expressions and Named Entities on Chinese-English Machine Translations

H Song, H Xu - Findings of the Association for Computational …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
In this paper, we present a study on the impact of so-called multiword expressions (MWEs)
and multiword named entities (NEs) on the performance of Chinese-English machine …

Overview of MWE history, challenges, and horizons: standing at the 20th anniversary of the MWE workshop series via MWE-UD2024

L Han, K Evang, A Bhatia, G Bouma… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Starting in 2003 when the first MWE workshop was held with ACL in Sapporo, Japan, this
year, the joint workshop of MWE-UD co-located with the LREC-COLING 2024 conference …