Non-linear models for confidence estimation

  • Authors:
  • Yong Zhuang;Guillaume Wisniewski;François Yvon

  • Affiliations:
  • Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China;Univ. Paris Sud and LIMSI--CNRS, Orsay CEDEX, France;Univ. Paris Sud and LIMSI--CNRS, Orsay CEDEX, France

  • Venue:
  • WMT '12 Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper describes our work with the data distributed for the WMT'12 Confidence Estimation shared task. Our contribution is twofold: i) we first present an analysis of the data which highlights the difficulty of the task and motivates our approach; ii) we show that using non-linear models, namely random forests, with a simple and limited feature set, succeeds in modeling the complex decisions required to assess translation quality and achieves results that are on a par with the second best results of the shared task.