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New TACTICS method enhances machine translation evaluation

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Researchers have developed TACTICS, a novel method for intelligent corpus sampling designed to improve the evaluation of machine translation systems. This approach recasts coverage as an explicit objective by inducing a hierarchical taxonomy from locale style guides and classifying segments against it. TACTICS selects a fixed-budget subset that optimizes coverage of rare categories, document-level coherence, and distributional fidelity to the full corpus. Applied to MT evaluation, TACTICS has demonstrated improved coverage of rare categories over traditional lexical and embedding-based selection methods. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Prasanth Bathala, Anubhav Shrimal, Sukhdeep Singh Kharbhanda, Pradyumna Lanka, Rohit Dhaipule ·

    TACTICS: Taxonomy-Aware Intelligent Corpus Sampling for Machine Translation

    arXiv:2609.17956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale machine-translation (MT) systems are typically evaluated on random samples from a corpus whose distributional composition is an artifact of how it was assembled. Such a sample inherits the phenomena the collection happen…

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