25 Jun20 Issue #87 – YiSi – A Unified Semantic MT Quality Evaluation and Estimation Metric Author: Dr. Karin Sim, Machine Translation Scientist @ Iconic Introduction Automatic evaluation is an issue that has long troubled machine translation (MT): how do we evaluate how good the MT output is? Traditionally, BLEU has been the “go to”, as it is simple to use across language pairs. However, it is overly simplistic, evaluating string matches to a single reference translation. More sophisticated metrics […]