@inproceedings{571f82986ee141088412d49ca4be2fb8,
title = "Unsupervised measurement of translation quality using multi-engine, bi-directional translation",
abstract = "Lay people discussing machine translation systems often perform a round trip translation, that is translating a text into a foreign language and back, to measure the quality of the system. The idea behind this is that a good system will produce a round trip translation that is exactly (or perhaps very close to) the original text. However, people working with machine translation systems intuitively know that round trip translation is not a good evaluation method. In this article we will show empirically that round trip translation cannot be used as a measure of the quality of a machine translation system. Even when using translations of multiple machine translation systems into account, to reduce the impact of errors of a single system, round trip translation cannot be used to measure machine translation quality.",
author = "{van Zaanen}, Menno and Simon Zwarts",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/11941439_149",
language = "English",
isbn = "3540497870",
series = "Lecture notes in computer science",
publisher = "Springer, Springer Nature",
pages = "1208--1214",
editor = "Abdul Sattar and Kang, {Byeong Ho}",
booktitle = "AI 2006",
address = "United States",
note = "Australian Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (19th : 2006) ; Conference date: 04-12-2006 Through 08-12-2006",
}