arXiv:2502.19941cs.CL2025-02ACL被引 6

解决合成数据分布偏移问题,提升机器翻译质量评估准确性。

Alleviating Distribution Shift in Synthetic Data for Machine Translation Quality Estimation

  • 用约束束搜索与多模型生成增强多样性,减少伪翻译与真实翻译差异。
  • 引入参考译文指导生成与标注,使词级标签更贴近人工判断。
  • 模仿人工标注习惯识别连续错误短语,提升句级标签质量。

质量评估(QE)模型可在无参考译文情况下评估机器翻译质量,作为翻译任务的奖励模型。由于数据稀缺,合成数据生成成为可行方案。但合成QE数据常存在分布偏移,表现为伪翻译与真实翻译不一致,或伪标签与人类偏好不符。为此,我们提出DCSQE框架以缓解合成数据中的分布偏移。为缩小伪翻译与真实翻译的差距,采用约束束搜索算法,并通过使用不同生成模型提升翻译多样性。DCSQE利用参考译文作为翻译监督信号,指导生成与标注过程,提升词级标签质量。进一步地,该方法识别覆盖连续错误词的最短短语,模仿人工标注行为,分配最终的句级标签。特别强调,翻译模型无法准确标注自身输出。大量实验表明,DCSQE在有监督与无监督设置下均优于CometKiwi等当前最优基线。深入分析为其他任务的奖励模型合成数据生成提供了启示。代码已开源:https://github.com/NJUNLP/njuqe。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Quality Estimation (QE) models evaluate the quality of machine translations without reference translations, serving as the reward models for the translation task. Due to the data scarcity, synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising solution. However, synthetic QE data often suffers from distribution shift, which can manifest as discrepancies between pseudo and real translations, or in pseudo labels that do not align with human preferences. To tackle this issue, we introduce DCSQE, a novel framework for alleviating distribution shift in synthetic QE data. To reduce the difference between pseudo and real translations, we employ the constrained beam search algorithm and enhance translation diversity through the use of distinct generation models. DCSQE uses references, i.e., translation supervision signals, to guide both the generation and annotation processes, enhancing the quality of token-level labels. DCSQE further identifies the shortest phrase covering consecutive error tokens, mimicking human annotation behavior, to assign the final phrase-level labels. Specially, we underscore that the translation model can not annotate translations of itself accurately. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DCSQE outperforms SOTA baselines like CometKiwi in both supervised and unsupervised settings. Further analysis offers insights into synthetic data generation that could benefit reward models for other tasks. The code is available at https://github.com/NJUNLP/njuqe.

质量评估合成数据分布偏移

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