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TransEvalnia: Reasoning-based Evaluation and Ranking of Translations

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Pith's one-line read TransEvalnia is a prompting-only evaluation system that makes a large language model break each translation into spans, score them along six quality dimensions, and reason about which translation is best — and the paper presents evidence…

desk verdict Solid, useful MT-evaluation paper with a real contribution in the interleaving pipeline, but the human meta-evaluation numbers are vulnerable to anchoring and the statistics are under-reported; worth serious refereeing. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.12724 v1 pith:ZZMS3DVZ submitted 2025-07-17 cs.CL

Richard Sproat , Tianyu Zhao , Llion Jones This is my paper · ORCID
classification cs.CL
keywords reasoning-basedevaluationmachinetranslationLLM-as-a-judgeMultidimensionalQualityMetricsrankingpositionbiasEnglish-Japaneseexplainable
verification ladder T0 review T1 audit T2 compute T3 formal

The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

TransEvalnia sets out to show that machine-translation evaluation does not have to choose between being accurate and being explainable. The system prompts a large language model to break each candidate translation into spans, judge every span on six dimensions drawn from the Multidimensional Quality Metrics (accuracy, terminology, linguistic conventions, audience appropriateness, hallucinations, and missing content), and then reason through those evaluations to pick the best translation and assign 1-5 Likert scores. The paper reports that this pipeline matches or beats MT-Ranker, a leading reference-free ranking metric, on the authors' English-Japanese data and on most WMT language pairs, with WMT-2024 en-es as the one exception. Professional translators rate the system's fine-grained evaluations as acceptable about 85 percent of the time and its overall evaluations 60-69 percent of the time, and the scores it assigns correlate with human scores about as well as two human rater groups correlate with each other. The reason this matters is that as LLM translations approach or exceed human quality, a raw score gives a user nothing to check; TransEvalnia's claim is that the reasons can be supplied without losing ranking quality.

What carries the argument

The engine of the system is a multi-stage prompting pipeline rather than a trained model. In the evaluation stage, the LLM first decides on a sensible decomposition of each translation into spans, then rates each span against six criteria drawn from the Multidimensional Quality Metrics — accuracy, terminology, linguistic conventions, audience appropriateness, hallucinations, and missing content — and writes an overall summary; for haiku, the fluency criterion is replaced by emotional content. In the scoring stage, the LLM converts each span and the whole translation into 1-5 Likert scores, and ranking by the arithmetic mean of these scores is offered as a position-bias-free option. For explicit ranking, the paper compares three variants: a single-step prompt that evaluates and ranks in one pass, a two-step variant that evaluates each translation alone before comparing, and a three-step variant that interleaves the candidates' evaluations dimension by dimension before the final ranking. The interleaving step is the paper's chief mechanism against position bias: by spreading each translation's material across the context rather than letting it sit in one contiguous block, it reduces order sensitivity, and it is the variant that shows the lowest bias inconsistency most often across the corpora tested.

What would settle it

Run the human meta-evaluation with a blinded control: professional raters produce their own span-and-dimension evaluations from just the source and translation, and only after that are shown TransEvalnia's evaluations to mark agreement. If blinded agreement drops well below the reported 0.85 fine-grained and 0.60-0.69 overall figures, the 'highly acceptable' claim would rest on anchoring rather than independent agreement.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

On its own terms, the paper's discovery is that reasoned evaluation is not a tax on ranking quality. With Claude-3.5-Sonnet or Qwen-2.5-72B-Instruct running the prompts, TransEvalnia correctly picks the human-preferred translation on par with or better than MT-Ranker on the Hard en-ja set, WMT-2021 en-ja and ja-en, WMT-2022 en-ru, WMT-2023 zh-en, and WMT-2023 en-de, while MT-Ranker retains the lead only on WMT-2024 en-es, a pair the paper notes is nearly saturated for translation systems. The same evaluations serve as human-acceptable explanations: two external annotation vendors agreed with the fine-grained span-and-dimension evaluations around 85 percent of the time and with the overall evaluation 60-69 percent of the time, and Sonnet's overall Likert scores reached Spearman correlations of 0.51-0.54 with the two vendor groups, statistically indistinguishable from the 0.52 correlation between the vendors themselves. The paper also establishes that order sensitivity is a real and shared weakness: both TransEvalnia and MT-Ranker flip their preferred answer when the order of the two translations is swapped, and the three-step interleaved variant shows the lowest position-bias inconsistency in 10 of the 14 corpus-by-system comparisons.

Load-bearing premise

The central meta-evaluation assumes that the professional raters' agreement with the system's evaluations — around 85 percent for fine-grained judgments — measures genuine evaluation quality, even though the raters saw the system's evaluations and scores before recording their own judgments, so the agreement could partly reflect anchoring rather than independent assessment.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Explainable evaluation need not cost ranking accuracy: users can get a per-span, per-dimension breakdown they can audit instead of a bare score.
  • The six MQM-derived dimensions act as a failure diagnosis, and the hallucination and missing-content flags specifically target the failures most typical of LLM translators.
  • The evaluation model is swappable — the same prompts ran with Sonnet, Qwen, GPT-4o, and Llama — and the scores it produces can fine-tune a cheaper open model, which the paper reports improved English-Japanese correlation by 5 to 14 points.
  • Order sensitivity is a property of the evaluation setup rather than of one model: MT-Ranker shows comparable or larger position bias, and the three-step interleaving reduces but does not eliminate the effect.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The reported rater-agreement figures (0.85 fine-grained, 0.60-0.69 overall) may overstate how acceptable the evaluations are: raters were shown both the translation and the system's evaluation before recording their judgments (Section 6.3, Appendix A.7), so part of the agreement could be anchoring, and a blinded-rater control would settle how much.
  • The introduction's 'WMT-2023 en-es' exception appears to be a typo: the body contains no English-Spanish WMT-2023 set, and the results tables place the one MT-Ranker win on WMT-2024 en-es.
  • The per-translation scoring stage points to a cheap labeling loop: scores computed without seeing competitors could be used as training signal for smaller, cheaper evaluation models, an extension the paper's LoRA experiment only starts to explore.
  • The interleaving device should transfer beyond translation: any LLM-as-judge task whose candidates decompose into comparable units (summaries, code fixes, instruction responses) could adopt dimension-wise interleaving to reduce order bias.
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Editorial analysis

A structured set of objections, weighed in public.

Desk editor's note, referee report, and a circularity audit.

Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper introduces TransEvalnia, a prompting-based LLM system for translation evaluation and ranking. Given a source text and two or more candidate translations, TransEvalnia decomposes each translation into spans, evaluates each span along a subset of MQM dimensions, produces an overall evaluation, ranks the translations, and optionally assigns 1–5 Likert scores per dimension and overall. The system is tested as an evaluator with Claude-3.5-Sonnet and Qwen-2.5-72B-Instruct on an in-house English–Japanese 'Generic' set (news, proverbs), a haiku set, a small 'Hard en-ja' set, and five WMT language-pair datasets, comparing pairwise ranking accuracy with MT-Ranker, COMET-22, COMET-23-XXL, XCOMET-XXL, and MetricX-XXL. The paper also measures position bias under different prompt/architecture variants (single-step, two-step, and three-step interleaved) and reports a human meta-evaluation in which professional translators rated the acceptablity of TransEvalnia's evaluations. The central claims are that TransEvalnia performs as well as or better than MT-Ranker on most tested datasets, that its evaluations are 'highly acceptable' to human raters, and that interleaving mitigates position bias.

Significance. If the claims hold, TransEvalnia is a practically useful explainable MT evaluation system: it provides fine-grained, span-level reasoning along dimensions that matter to translators, it is competitive with a strong reference-free ranker, and it comes with fully released code, prompts, and data. The paper's strengths include the open release of all evaluation outputs and human annotations, the use of a second LLM (Qwen) as an evaluator to control for Sonnet's possible self-preference, the two-vendor human meta-evaluation, and the unusually transparent appendices containing full prompts and per-configuration tables. The position-bias analysis is a valuable contribution, and the proposed three-step interleaving method is a sensible and apparently effective mitigation. However, two load-bearing parts of the argument need work: the human meta-evaluation is potentially confounded by an anchoring design, and the ranking-parity claim is made without confidence intervals or significance tests despite multiple small differences on 500-item sets.

major comments (3)
  1. [§5.4, §6.3, Appendix A.7] The 'highly acceptable' claim is not adequately secured because the human raters were given the system's span-by-span evaluations, the overall evaluation, and the Likert scores before being asked whether they agreed and before assigning their own scores. Section 6.3 acknowledges the anchoring danger but the rebuttal addresses only the ranking of the translations ('the ranking of the translations is largely consistent across vendors and evaluation systems'), not the agreement judgments that support the acceptability figure. The Qwen-as-evaluator control (Appendix A.11, Table 24) replicates the same design, so both sets of raters saw LLM-generated evaluations and the 0.85 fine-grained agreement could be inflated in both cases. The lower overall agreement (0.60–0.69) suggests raters were willing to disagree, but it does not establish that the fine-grained numbers are unbiased. I recommend reporting an additional condition in which raters score the same translations without seeing the LLM evaluation, or at minimum toning down the 'highly acceptable' claim in the abstract until such a control exists.
  2. [§6.1, Tables 5–11] The ranking-parity claim is reported without confidence intervals or significance tests. Many differences that support the 'as good as or better' conclusion are 0.01–0.03 on 500 examples (e.g., Table 6: Qwen 1-step min accuracy 0.64 vs MT-Ranker min 0.60; Table 8: Qwen interleaved min 0.71 vs MT-Ranker min 0.70; Table 9: Qwen 2-step max 0.72 vs MT-Ranker max 0.69). With 500 Bernoulli trials, a 0.03 difference is within the width of a 95% confidence interval for many of these comparisons, so the reader cannot tell which differences are real. I ask the authors to add exact binomial tests or bootstrap confidence intervals for the headline comparisons (each TransEvalnia configuration vs MT-Ranker per dataset) and to state which differences would survive multiple-comparison correction.
  3. [§6.1 and Abstract] The headline 'TransEvalnia performs as well as or better than MT-Ranker' is weakened by the way the system is defined over multiple configurations. Section 6.1 supports the claim by saying 'one or more of our TransEvalnia configurations are on a par with or outperform MT-Ranker', and the abstract then generalizes to 'TransEvalnia'. With five or more configurations (1-step, 2-step, interleaved, no-reasoning, scored), it is unsurprising that some variant matches or beats MT-Ranker on a given dataset. For example, on WMT-2021 ja-en (Table 7) only the 'Qwen scored' configuration reaches MT-Ranker's minimum accuracy, and on WMT-2024 en-es (Table 11) no TransEvalnia configuration matches MT-Ranker. I recommend designating a single primary configuration (e.g., the interleaved method with Qwen or Sonnet) for the headline comparison, reporting that configuration consistently across all datasets, and treating the other variants as ablations.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§1] The Introduction states that TransEvalnia is 'on a par with or outperforms MT-Ranker' for all datasets 'except WMT-2023 en-es', but the data and results in §4.2 and Table 11 concern WMT-2024 en-es; correct the year to WMT-2024.
  2. [Figure 2 caption] The caption says 'Sonnet models were only run on Hard en-ja, WMT-2021 en-ja and WMT-2021 en-es', but the datasets and Table 11 show Sonnet runs on WMT-2024 en-es and there is no WMT-2021 en-es in the paper; the caption should read WMT-2024 en-es.
  3. [Appendix A.4.2] The interleaved ranking prompt contains a numbering error: '<EVALUATION number=2> correspond to Translation 1' should say 'Translation 2', and the sentence 'I am going to give you a texts' is ungrammatical.
  4. [§6.3] The phrase 'the overall evaluation 5 points lower at 0.64' is ambiguous; the numbers are proportions, so it should say '5 percentage points lower'.
  5. [Appendix A.1.2] The WMT-2024 data is cited as (Kocmi et al., 2024b), but the reference list assigns 2024b to 'Navigating the metrics maze'; the WMT24 findings paper is 2024a, so the citation should be updated.

Circularity Check

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No significant circularity: ranking claims are benchmarked against external WMT human scores; the human-meta-evaluation anchoring risk is a validity confound, not a self-referential derivation.

full rationale

The paper makes no derivation that reduces to its inputs. TransEvalnia's ranking accuracy is measured against human DA/MQM scores from WMT-2021 through WMT-2024, which are collected independently of the system; the same external scores are used for every baseline (MT-Ranker, COMET-22/23, XCOMET, MetricX). The fine-tuning experiment trains on WMT MQM targets and tests on separate English-Japanese human scores, a standard transfer setting rather than a fitted-input/prediction loop. There are no load-bearing self-citations: all cited baselines and position-bias studies are external works. The paper explicitly flags the one self-referential-sounding design choice in Section 6.3: raters saw the system evaluations before judging them, so the reported 0.85 fine-grained and 0.60-0.69 overall agreement could be partly anchoring-driven. That is a genuine validity threat to the 'highly acceptable' claim, but it is a psychological confound acknowledged by the authors and partially rebutted by cross-vendor/cross-evaluator ranking consistency; it does not make the agreement equal to the system's output by construction. The fact that Sonnet evaluated its own translations is likewise controlled by the Qwen-evaluator condition. The central parity claim with MT-Ranker therefore remains externally grounded, giving circularity score 0.

Assumptions & free parameters 0 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The system has no fitted numerical parameters; all behavior comes from hand-written prompts and off-the-shelf LLMs. The assumptions are domain-level: that the MQM-style criteria are suitable, that LLM judgments reflect quality, and that the human labels are trustworthy. No new entities are postulated.

assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption LLM outputs on the six MQM-derived dimensions are meaningful measures of translation quality.
    The system treats Sonnet and Qwen evaluations as valid evidence of quality, validated only indirectly through agreement with human raters. This is a domain assumption, not proven by the paper.
  • domain assumption The six chosen dimensions (accuracy, terminology, linguistic conventions, audience appropriateness, hallucinations, missing content) cover the relevant aspects of translation quality.
    The dimensions are adopted from MQM without validation that they are complete or non-redundant for the tested genres including haiku, where the criteria are modified.
  • domain assumption Human ratings used as ground truth (WMT MQM/Direct Assessment, vendor Likert scores) are reliable enough for the comparisons made.
    The paper uses these ratings as gold labels, yet the human-human correlation is only R=0.52, so part of the noise in the system rankings is inherited from the ground truth.

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We present TransEvalnia, a prompting-based translation evaluation and ranking system that uses reasoning in performing its evaluations and ranking. This system presents fine-grained evaluations based on a subset of the Multidimensional Quality Metrics (https://themqm.org/), returns an assessment of which translation it deems the best, and provides numerical scores for the various dimensions and for the overall translation. We show that TransEvalnia performs as well as or better than the state-of-the-art MT-Ranker (Moosa et al. 2024) on our own English-Japanese data as well as several language pairs from various WMT shared tasks. Using Anthropic's Claude-3.5-Sonnet and Qwen-2.5-72B-Instruct as the evaluation LLMs, we show that the evaluations returned are deemed highly acceptable to human raters, and that the scores assigned to the translations by Sonnet, as well as other LLMs, correlate well with scores assigned by the human raters. We also note the sensitivity of our system -- as well as MT-Ranker -- to the order in which the translations are presented, and we propose methods to address this position bias. All data, including the system's evaluation and reasoning, human assessments, as well as code is released.

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Figure 1. Three approaches to evaluation. (a) Single step where the LLM evaluates all [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p005_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Accuracies for all systems run on the datasets. Sonnet TransEvalnia models are in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Sample evaluation of a Matsuo Basho haiku ¯ 秋風の吹けども青し栗の毬 akikaze no, fuke domo aoshi, kuri no iga, ‘Though the autumn wind blows, the chestnut burrs are yet green’, with four machine-generated translations (a). The ranking system (Sonnet) first evaluated each translation (b), then interleaved these evaluations (c). Finally on the basis of the interleaved translations, it ranked the translations, giving its reasons f… view at source ↗

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    Missing Content: Is there any important information in the original that is 16 missing from the translation? {% if source_language == "English" and target_language == "Japanese" %} For example for the source sentence "Sarah Palin cites Track Palin 's PTSD at Donald Trump rally" One might have a translation: "サラ・パレンは、ドナルド・トランプのラリーでトラック・パレンのPTSDを引用しまし た。",→...

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    Hallucinations: This portion of the translation does not appear to correspond to anything in the original and cannot be justified by any need to adapt the text to the target audience. It seems like a hallucination. You should reward yourself for using (5) as LITTLE as possible: that is only categorize a span as a hallucination if you cannot find any plaus...

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    Translation 1 is best

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    It seems like a hallucination

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    The translation of "daubed" as " 塗りつぶされています" doesn 't accurately convey the original meaning.,→ A more accurate translation might be: "チチカカ湖からアマゾンまでの海軍基地には、「海は当然我々のものである」というモッ トーが書かれています。",→ This version includes the missing "Naval bases," correctly translates the geographical...

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    Though autumn winds blow,

    "Though autumn winds blow," Sense: Accurate translation of "秋風の吹けども " (autumn wind blows)

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    The chestnut burrs remain green—

    "The chestnut burrs remain green—” ... ... ... Interleaved evaluation of Emotional content Interleaved evaluation of Accuracy QWEN Autumn wind blows, Yet green, the chestnut's spiky ball. GPT Though autumn winds blow Still green are the chestnut burs In their prickly hold Clau...

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    秋風 の吹けども

    This accurately captures the sense of "秋風 の吹けども" (akikaze no fukedomo), which literally means "although the autumn wind blows."

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    It conveys the emotional content of the original, suggesting the onset of autumn. ... b) Yet green, the chestnut's spiky ball

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    青し栗の毬" (aoshi kuri no mari), which means

    This accurately translates "青し栗の毬" (aoshi kuri no mari), which means "the chestnut's burr is green."

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    秋風の吹けど も

    Though autumn winds blow - Sense: Accurate translation of "秋風の吹けど も" (autumn wind blows) - Emotion: Captures the sense of seasonal change

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    Still green are the chestnut burs - Sense: Accurately conveys "青し栗の毬" (green chestnut burs)

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    In their prickly hold

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    Though autumn winds blow,

    "Though autumn winds blow," Sense: Accurate translation of "秋風の吹けど も" (autumn wind blows). Emotion: Captures the sense of change and transition in autumn

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    The chestnut burrs remain green—

    "The chestnut burrs remain green—” Sense: Accurately translates "青し栗の毬" (green chestnut burrs)

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    "Defiant in hue” ... a) Even in the autumn wind,

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    秋風 の吹けども

    This accurately captures the sense of "秋風 の吹けども" (though the autumn wind blows)

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    It conveys the emotional content of the contrast between autumn and something ... ... b) The persimmon leaves remain green

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    The original mentions " 栗の毬" (chestnut burrs), not persimmon leaves

    This is inaccurate. The original mentions " 栗の毬" (chestnut burrs), not persimmon leaves. ... a) Even in the autumn wind,

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    秋風 の吹けども

    This accurately captures the sense of "秋風 の吹けども" (though the autumn wind blows). b) The persimmon leaves remain green

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    The original mentions

    This is inaccurate. The original mentions

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    秋風の吹けど も

    Though autumn winds blow - Sense: Accurate translation of "秋風の吹けど も" (autumn wind blows)

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    Still green are the chestnut burs - Sense: Accurately conveys "青し栗の毬" ... ... a) Autumn wind blows,

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    秋風 の吹けども

    This accurately captures the sense of "秋風 の吹けども" (akikaze no fukedomo), which literally means "although the autumn wind blows." b) Yet green, the chestnut's spiky ball

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    This accurately translates "青し栗の毬"

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    Though autumn winds blow,

    "Though autumn winds blow," Sense: Accurate translation of "秋風の吹けど も" (autumn wind blows)

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    "The chestnut burrs remain green—” Sense: Accurately translates "青し栗の毬" ... ... Ranking decision Translation 3 is best. Reasons for this assessment:

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    accurately captures the sense

    Accuracy: The evaluation notes that Translation 3 "accurately captures the sense" of both key parts of the original haiku - the autumn wind blowing and the chestnut's burr remaining green. It's described as "highly accurate" in the summary

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    reference

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    2024 arXiv

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    reference

    (Source: https://www2.statmt.org/wmt23/). The Chinese-English portion consisted of 18,832 sentence translation pairs, which were a mix of news, user manuals and E-commerce texts. The English-German portion had 5,980 pairs, consisting of social media, news, meet- ing notes and ...

    2024

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    Nitika Mathur, Timothy Baldwin, and Trevor Cohn

    URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.10351. Nitika Mathur, Timothy Baldwin, and Trevor Cohn. Tangled up in BLEU: Reevaluating the evaluation of automatic machine translation evaluation metrics. In Dan Jurafsky, Joyce Chai, Natalie Schluter, and Joel Tetreault (eds.), Proceedings of ...

    2020 arXiv

Pith tools

Reviewed August 6, 2026 · model on record in the stance chip above.