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. 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 […]
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