22 Oct20 Issue #104 – Using Test Sets to Evaluate Machine Translation Author: Dr. Karin Sim, Machine Translation Scientist @ Iconic Introduction There is finally a growing acceptance in some circles that evaluation of Machine Translation (MT) is lagging behind progress in Neural MT (NMT). Especially with regards to metrics such as BLEU, there is a recognition that “as NMT continues to improve, these metrics will inevitably lose their effectiveness” (Isabelle et al., 2017). In today’s blog post, we look […]