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Just Ask! Evaluating Machine Translation by Asking and Answering Questions

1 Nov 2021WMT (EMNLP) 2021 11archive 2025-07-28

Mateusz Krubiński, Erfan Ghadery, Marie-Francine Moens, Pavel Pecina

In this paper, we show that automatically-generated questions and answers can be used to evaluate the quality of Machine Translation (MT) systems. Building on recent work on the evaluation of abstractive text summarization, we propose a new metric for system-level MT evaluation, compare it with other state-of-the-art solutions, and show its robustness by conducting experiments for various MT directions.

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