CLIReval: Evaluating Machine Translation as a Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval Task (2020.acl-demos)
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| Challenge: | evaluating machine translation (MT) with cross-lingual information retrieval is relatively time-consuming and subjective. |
| Approach: | They propose a toolkit that evaluates machine translation with a proxy task of cross-lingual information retrieval. |
| Outcome: | The proposed toolkit is based on the "metrics shared task" of WMT2019. |
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