Adversarial Evaluation of Multimodal Machine Translation

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The promise of combining vision and language in multimodal machine translation is that systems will produce better translations by leveraging the image data. However, inconsistent results have lead to uncertainty about whether the images actually improve translation quality. We present an adversarial evaluation method to directly examine the utility of the image data in this task. Our evaluation measures whether multimodal translation systems perform better given either the congruentimage or a random incongruent image, in add ition to the correct source language sentence. We find that two out of three publicly available systems are sensitive to this perturbation of the data, and recommend that all systems pass this evaluation in the future
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Number of pages5
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
Publication date2018
Pages2974-2978
ISBN (Print)978-1-948087-84-1
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Brussels, Belgium
Duration: 31 Oct 20184 Nov 2018

Conference

Conference2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
LandBelgium
ByBrussels
Periode31/10/201804/11/2018

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