26 Nov20 Issue #109 – COMET- the Crosslingual Optimised Metric for Evaluation of Translation Author: Dr. Karin Sim, Machine Translation Scientist @ Iconic Introduction In today’s blog post we take a look at COMET, one of the frontrunners this year at the annual WMT metrics competition (when looking across all language pairs) (Mathur et al., 2020). Historically, Machine Translation (MT) quality is evaluated by comparing the MT output with a human translated reference, and using metrics which increasingly are becoming […]