Séminaire de Frédéric Blain, enseignant-chercheur à University of Wolverhampton

Date: 15/04/2022
Heure: 11h00
Lieu: IC2, Salle des conseils et en ligne
Intervenant: Frédéric Blain

Quality Estimation: Application to Machine Translation.

What is a good translation? This is a simple question, yet quite a difficult one to answer, in particular when the translation has been generated automatically.
Machine Translation (MT) has been a very active field of research for several decades now, yet the question of how « good » state-of-the-art MT systems are still divides the Research Community.
MT is used daily, almost everywhere by almost everyone, ranging from professionals to average end-users. However, in most use cases (e.g. online platforms) clues as to whether and to which extent these automatically generated texts are reliable, are non-existent.

This talk aims to introduce the concept of Quality Estimation and its application to Machine Translation. In other words, how to predict the « quality » of MT output when no reference is available (i.e. Evaluation cannot be done). State-of-the-art architectures will be presented and exploratory research directions will be discussed. Time permitting, the talk would finish with some pointers to open-source resources one can use to get started.