Traditional Versus Neural Metrics for Machine Translation Evaluation

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Benjamin Marie
Towards Data Science
15 min readMar 9, 2023

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An evaluation with automatic metrics has the advantages to be faster, more reproducible, and cheaper than an evaluation conducted by humans.

This is especially true for the evaluation of machine translation. For a human evaluation, we would ideally need expert translators

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