Quality Estimation without Human-labeled Data
Yi-Lin Tuan, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, Lucia Specia
Abstract
Quality estimation aims to measure the quality of translated content without access to a reference translation. This is crucial for machine translation systems in real-world scenarios where high-quality translation is needed. While many approaches exist for quality estimation, they are based on supervised machine learning requiring costly human labelled data. As an alternative, we propose a technique that does not rely on examples from human-annotators and instead uses synthetic training data. We train off-the-shelf architectures for supervised quality estimation on our synthetic data and show that the resulting models achieve comparable performance to models trained on human-annotated data, both for sentence and word-level prediction.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.eacl-main.50
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
- Month:
- April
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Online
- Editors:
- Paola Merlo, Jorg Tiedemann, Reut Tsarfaty
- Venue:
- EACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 619–625
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.50
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.50
- Cite (ACL):
- Yi-Lin Tuan, Ahmed El-Kishky, Adithya Renduchintala, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, and Lucia Specia. 2021. Quality Estimation without Human-labeled Data. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pages 619–625, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Quality Estimation without Human-labeled Data (Tuan et al., EACL 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2021.eacl-main.50.pdf
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