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Human evaluation of multi-modal neural machine translation: a case study on E-commerce listing titles

Calixto, Iacer, Stein, Daniel, Matusov, Evgeny, Castilho, Sheila orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-8416-6555 and Way, Andy orcid logoORCID: 0000-0001-5736-5930 (2017) Human evaluation of multi-modal neural machine translation: a case study on E-commerce listing titles. In: Sixth Workshop on Vision and Language, VL@EACL, 3-7 April 2017, Valencia, Spain. ISBN 978-1-945626-51-7

Abstract
In this paper, we study how humans perceive the use of images as an additional knowledge source to machine-translate usergenerated product listings in an e-commerce company. We conduct a human evaluation where we assess how a multi-modal neural machine translation (NMT) model compares to two text-only approaches: a conventional state-of-the-art attention-based NMT and a phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) model. We evaluate translations obtained with different systems and also discuss the data set of user-generated product listings, which in our case comprises both product listings and associated images. We found that humans preferred translations obtained with a PBSMT system to both text-only and multi-modal NMT over 56% of the time. Nonetheless, human evaluators ranked translations from a multi-modal NMT model as better than those of a text-only NMT over 88% of the time, which suggests that images do help NMT in this use-case.
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Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Event Type:Conference
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Computer Science > Machine translating
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Research Institutes and Centres > ADAPT
Published in: Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Vision and Language (VL'17). . Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). ISBN 978-1-945626-51-7
Publisher:Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.18653/v1/W17-2004
Copyright Information:© 2017 ACL
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106) and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund
ID Code:23073
Deposited On:11 Mar 2019 13:29 by Thomas Murtagh . Last Modified 20 Jan 2021 16:48
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