NMTScore: A Multilingual Analysis of Translation-based Text Similarity Measures (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Neural machine translation (NMT) enables several similarity measures to estimate the probability of translations. |
| Approach: | They propose to rank the similarity of short text segments using translation-based similarity measures . they use the NMTScore library to analyze translation-related similarity . |
| Outcome: | The proposed measures show a relatively high correlation to human judgments when used for reference-based evaluation of data-to-text generation in 2 tasks and 17 languages. |
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