Source-Free MT Evaluation Is Not MT Evaluation
arXiv:2608.20925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reference-based metrics remain the standard choice in machine translation evaluation, partly because quality estimation methods often correlate less...
arXiv:2608.20925v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reference-based metrics remain the standard choice in machine translation evaluation, partly because quality estimation methods often correlate less...
arXiv:2609.14963v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As large language models become capable translators of classical texts, a key challenge is deciding which outputs need expert review when no human refe...
Indic quality estimation (QE) and automatic post-editing (APE) data is spread across separate releases, so no single resource supports training and evaluation across tasks and language pairs on one footing. We consolidate the WMT 2020--2024 shared-task lineage with an extended English--Malayalam resource into \indicqe: $126{,}754$ instances over nine directional pairs, with up to four label types aligned on the same segment, a direct assessment, a human post-edit, word-level OK/BAD tags and an error explanation, and a test set stratified over four difficulty axes.
IndicQE-APE is a consolidated benchmark that unifies quality estimation (QE) and automatic post‑editing (APE) data for nine Indic language pairs, comprising 126,754 instances with multiple aligned labels such as direct assessment, human post‑edit, word‑level OK/BAD tags, and error explanations. The dataset includes a stratified test set across four difficulty axes and supports training and evaluation of six prompted large language models, three COMET metrics, and three APE systems. Experiments reveal that segments with conflicting holistic and token‑level quality signals are consistently ranked lower, while annotator disagreement shows no effect when controlled for score distribution. whyItMatters":"The benchmark provides a unified resource for training and evaluating QE and APE across Indic languages, enabling consistent comparison of models and metrics on a shared dataset."
arXiv:2608. 03803v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual language models are deployed across a hundred or more languages, yet most benchmarks test whether a model can perform a task _in_ a language rather than whether it commands the language itself, conflating fluency with proficiency.
arXiv:2609.09999v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Terminology-aware translation asks for more than a correct translation: the output must use the exact terms a glossary prescribes. The standard recipe,...
Teochew has a substantial speaker community and exhibits distinctive lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic features, yet textual resources for evaluating large language models remain limited. We present T...
arXiv:2606. 03650v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Choosing or ranking language models for a specific application is hardest when no task-specific labeled data exists, and standard public benchmarks cannot be trusted, their items having likely leaked into pretraining, so scores reflect memorization rather than fitness.
arXiv:2608.16344v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Indic quality estimation (QE) and automatic post-editing (APE) data is spread across separate releases, so no single resource supports training and...
The paper introduces discourse dependency (DDP) as a continuous measure of translation difficulty based on how far back a segment must look to resolve references. DDP is computed from named entity re‑mentions and pronominal coreference, and is validated against gold coreference with high reliability. Applying DDP to recent WMT benchmarks reveals a bias toward low‑DDP segments, and experiments show that as DDP increases, no current context‑injection strategy matches human post‑editing quality.
arXiv:2608. 10812v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study reference-free post-training for multilingual machine translation with open large language models.
arXiv:2609.18156v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Teochew has a substantial speaker community and exhibits distinctive lexical, syntactic, and pragmatic features, yet textual resources for evaluating l...