Contextual bitext-derived paraphrases in automatic MT evaluation
Owczarzak, Karolina, Groves, Declan, van Genabith, Josef and Way, AndyORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930
(2006)
Contextual bitext-derived paraphrases in automatic MT evaluation.
In: HLT-NAACL 2006 Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation, 8-9 June 2006, New York, NY, USA.
In this paper we present a novel method for deriving paraphrases during automatic MT evaluation using only the source and reference texts, which are necessary for
the evaluation, and word and phrase alignment software. Using target language paraphrases produced through word and
phrase alignment a number of alternative reference sentences are constructed automatically for each candidate translation. The method produces lexical and lowlevel
syntactic paraphrases that are relevant to the domain in hand, does not use external knowledge resources, and can be
combined with a variety of automatic MT evaluation system.