Findings of the WMT 2020 Shared Task on Machine Translation Robustness

Lucia Specia, Zhenhao Li, Juan Pino, Vishrav Chaudhary, Francisco Guzmán, Paul Michel, Graham Neubig, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir Durrani, Yonatan Belinkov, Philipp Koehn, Xian Li

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Abstract

We report the findings of the second edition of the shared task on improving robustness in Machine Translation (MT). The task aims to test current machine translation systems in their ability to handle challenges facing MT models to be deployed in the real world, including domain diversity and non-standard texts common in user generated content, especially in social media. We cover two language pairs - English-German and English-Japanese and provide test sets in zero-shot and few-shot variants. Participating systems are evaluated both automatically and manually, with an additional human evaluation for “catastrophic errors”. We received 59 submissions by 11 participating teams from a variety of types of institutions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings
EditorsLoic Barrault, Ondrej Bojar, Fethi Bougares, Rajen Chatterjee, Marta R. Costa-Jussa, Christian Federmann, Mark Fishel, Alexander Fraser, Yvette Graham, Paco Guzman, Barry Haddow, Matthias Huck, Antonio Jimeno Yepes, Philipp Koehn, Andre Martins, Makoto Morishita, Christof Monz, Masaaki Nagata, Toshiaki Nakazawa, Matteo Negri
Pages76-91
Number of pages16
ISBN (Electronic)9781948087810
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 19 Nov 202020 Nov 2020

Publication series

Name5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference5th Conference on Machine Translation, WMT 2020
CityVirtual, Online
Period19/11/2020/11/20

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Software
  • Language and Linguistics

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