Unbabel’s Participation in the WMT20 Metrics Shared Task

Ricardo Rei, Craig Stewart, Ana C Farinha, Alon Lavie


Abstract
We present the contribution of the Unbabel team to the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Metrics. We intend to participate on the segmentlevel, document-level and system-level tracks on all language pairs, as well as the “QE as a Metric” track. Accordingly, we illustrate results of our models in these tracks with reference to test sets from the previous year. Our submissions build upon the recently proposed COMET framework: we train several estimator models to regress on different humangenerated quality scores and a novel ranking model trained on relative ranks obtained from Direct Assessments. We also propose a simple technique for converting segment-level predictions into a document-level score. Overall, our systems achieve strong results for all language pairs on previous test sets and in many cases set a new state-of-the-art.
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2020.wmt-1.101
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Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation
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November
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2020
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Online
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EMNLP | WMT
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SIGMT
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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911–920
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Ricardo Rei, Craig Stewart, Ana C Farinha, and Alon Lavie. 2020. Unbabel’s Participation in the WMT20 Metrics Shared Task. In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Machine Translation, pages 911–920, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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