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#1 Metric for Automatic Machine Translation Evaluation based on Universal Sentence Representations [PDF] [Copy] [Kimi] [REL]

Authors: Hiroki Shimanaka ; Tomoyuki Kajiwara ; Mamoru Komachi

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 quality of machine translation. Al-though it is difficult to train sentence representations using small-scale translation datasets with manual evaluation, sentence representations trained from large-scale data in other tasks can improve the automatic evaluation of machine translation. Experimental results of the WMT-2016 dataset show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance with sentence representation features only.