WMT 2012

This paper describes the joint QUAERO sub- mission to the WMT 2012 machine transla- tion evaluation. Four groups (RWTH Aachen University, Karlsruhe Institute of Technol- ogy, LIMSI-CNRS, and SYSTRAN) of …...

This paper describes Uppsala University’s submissions to the Quality Estimation (QE) shared task at WMT 2012. We present a QE system based on Support Vector Machine re- gression, using a …...

Human evaluation of machine translation quality is a key element in the develop- ment of machine translation systems, as automatic metrics are validated through correlation with human judgment. How- ever, …...

The linguistically transparent MEANT and UMEANT metrics are tunable, simple yet highly effective, fully automatic ap- proximation to the human HMEANT MT evaluation metric which measures seman- tic frame similarity …...

Most of the widely-used automatic evaluation metrics consider only the local fragments of the references and translations, and they ignore the evaluation on the syntax level. Current syntax- based evaluation …...