Issue #90 – Tangled up in BLEU: Reevaluating how we evaluate automatic metrics in Machine Translation

16 Jul20 Issue #90 – Tangled up in BLEU: Reevaluating how we evaluate automatic metrics in Machine Translation Author: Dr. Karin Sim, Machine Translation Scientist @ Iconic Introduction Automatic metrics have a crucial role in Machine Translation (MT). They are used to tune the MT systems during the development phase, to determine which model is best, and to subsequently determine the accuracy of the final translations. Currently, the performance of these automatic metrics is judged by seeing how well they […]

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