MSLC25: Metric Performance on Low-Quality Machine Translation, Empty Strings, and Language Variants

Rebecca Knowles, Samuel Larkin, Chi-kiu Lo · 2025

In this challenge set, we examine how automatic metrics for machine translation perform on a wide variety of machine translation output, covering a wider range of quality than the WMT submissions.We also explore metric results on specific types of corner cases, such as empty strings, wrong-or mixed-language text, and more.We primarily focus on Japanese-Chinese data, with some work on English and Czech.

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