Calixto, Iacer, Stein, Daniel, Matusov, Evgeny, Castilho, Sheila ORCID: 0000-0002-8416-6555 and Way, Andy ORCID: 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.
Metadata
Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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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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