Modeling Monolingual Character Alignment for Automatic Evaluation of Chinese Translation
Modeling Monolingual Character Alignment for Automatic Evaluation of Chinese Translation
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中文翻译自动评估的单语字符对齐建模
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10.1145/2815619
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发表时间：
2016-01
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2
通讯作者：
Fan Xu
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作者：
Maoxi Li;Mingwen Wang;Hanxi Li;Fan Xu
自动评估机器翻译是一项重要任务。大多数现有的评估指标都依赖于相同的单词或字母n-gram匹配。这种策略导致中文翻译的结果不佳，因为必须仅依靠匹配ID
Automatic evaluation of machine translations is an important task. Most existing evaluation metrics rely on matching the same word or letter n-grams. This strategy leads to poor results on Chinese translations because one has to rely merely on matching identical characters. In this article, we propose a new evaluation metric that allows different characters with the same or similar meaning to match. An Indirect Hidden Markov Model (IHMM) is proposed to align the Chinese translation with human references at the character level. In the model, the emission probabilities are estimated by character similarity, including character semantic similarity and character surface similarity, and transition probabilities are estimated by a heuristic distance-based distortion model. When evaluating the submitted output of English-to-Chinese translation systems in the IWSLT’08 CT-EC and NIST’08 EC tasks, the experimental results indicate that the proposed metric has a significantly better correlation with human evaluation than the state-of-the-art machine translation metrics (i.e., BLEU, Meteor Universal, and TESLA-CELAB). This study shows that it is important to allow different characters to match in the evaluation of Chinese translations and that the IHMM is a reasonable approach for the alignment of Chinese characters.
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