TransQuest at WMT2020: Sentence-Level Direct Assessment

Tharindu Ranasinghe; Constantin Orasan; Ruslan Mitkov

TransQuest at WMT2020: Sentence-Level Direct Assessment

Tharindu Ranasinghe, Constantin Orasan, Ruslan Mitkov

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Abstract

This paper presents the team TransQuest’s participation in Sentence-Level Direct Assessment shared task in WMT 2020. We introduce a simple QE framework based on cross-lingual transformers, and we use it to implement and evaluate two different neural architectures. The proposed methods achieve state-of-the-art results surpassing the results obtained by OpenKiwi, the baseline used in the shared task. We further fine tune the QE framework by performing ensemble and data augmentation. Our approach is the winning solution in all of the language pairs according to the WMT 2020 official results.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Fifth Conference on Machine Translation
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	1049–1055
Publication status	Published - Nov 2020
Event	5th Conference on Machine Translation - Duration: 19 Nov 2020 → 20 Nov 2020

Conference

Conference	5th Conference on Machine Translation
Abbreviated title	WMT 20
Period	19/11/20 → 20/11/20

Access to Document

https://aclanthology.org/2020.wmt-1.122

Cite this

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