Publikation
Train, Sort, Explain: Learning to Diagnose Translation Models
Robert Schwarzenberg; David Harbecke; Vivien Macketanz; Eleftherios Avramidis; Sebastian Möller
In: Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-HLT): Demonstrations. Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL-2019), June 2-7, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019.
Zusammenfassung
Evaluating translation models is a trade-off between effort and detail. On the one end of the spectrum there are automatic count-based methods such as BLEU, on the other end linguistic evaluations by humans, which arguably are more informative but also require a disproportionately high effort. To narrow the spectrum, we propose a general approach on how to automatically expose systematic differences between human and machine translations to human experts. Inspired by adversarial settings, we train a neural text classifier to distinguish human from machine translations. A classifier that performs and generalizes well after training should recognize systematic differences between the two classes, which we uncover with neural explainability methods. Our proof-of-concept implementation, DiaMaT, is open source. Applied to a dataset translated by a state-of-the-art neural Transformer model, DiaMaT achieves a classification accuracy of 75% and exposes meaningful differences between humans and the Transformer, amidst the current discussion about human parity.