BRAPT: A New Metric for Translation Evaluation Based on Psycholinguistic Perspectives

Autor: Rafael Guimarães Rodrigues, Kaio Tavares Rodrigues, Rodrigo Reis Gomes, Gustavo Paiva Guedes, Eduardo Ogasawara, Lilian Ferrari
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: IEEE Latin America Transactions. 18:1264-1271
ISSN: 1548-0992
DOI: 10.1109/tla.2020.9099768
Popis: There are some metrics to evaluate automatic text translations in the literature. However, the state-of-the-art of these metrics still has limitations. One of them is the dependence of an exact and ordered pairing of words for evaluating similarity among texts. Another, is the non-consideration of the semantics of the text in such comparison. Previous studies point out the need to analyze the semantics of words in the evaluation of translations. In this scenario, this paper presents a novel metric capable of evaluating the differences in automatic text translations that takes into account the semantics of the words presented in the texts. As a proof of concept, we selected ten journalistic texts written in English. These texts have been translated to Portuguese by specialists and by automatic text translation tools. Experimental results show the potential of the proposed metric in evaluating these translations, indicating it can perform better than the state-of-the-art metric.
Databáze: OpenAIRE