Machine Translation Weekly 94: Notes from WMT 2021
After the notes from EMNLP 2021, here is also an unsorted list of some
observations from the Conference on Machine Translation.
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Facebook AI won in many translation directions (not at all in all of them) in
the news task with a multilingual
system. -
At the panel discussion about MT evaluation, Herman Nay expressed a
controversial opinion: it does not matter what metric we use, the history of
MT would be the same with any metric (that at least slightly correlates with
what humans think).- Probably partially true: The major breakthroughs brought such large
improvements that would be obvious in any metric. But saying that would
mean saying that most of the research is irrelevant and only the major
breakthroughs matter
- Probably partially true: The major breakthroughs brought such large