As Easy as 1, 2, 3: Behavioural Testing of NMT Systems for Numerical Translation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.08357v1
• Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2021 04:09:47 GMT
• Title: As Easy as 1, 2, 3: Behavioural Testing of NMT Systems for Numerical Translation
• Authors: Jun Wang, Chang Xu, Francisco Guzman, Ahmed El-Kishky, Benjamin I. P. Rubinstein, Trevor Cohn
• Abstract summary: Mistranslated numbers have the potential to cause serious effects, such as financial loss or medical misinformation. We develop comprehensive assessments of the robustness of neural machine translation systems to numerical text via behavioural testing.
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• Abstract: Mistranslated numbers have the potential to cause serious effects, such as financial loss or medical misinformation. In this work we develop comprehensive assessments of the robustness of neural machine translation systems to numerical text via behavioural testing. We explore a variety of numerical translation capabilities a system is expected to exhibit and design effective test examples to expose system underperformance. We find that numerical mistranslation is a general issue: major commercial systems and state-of-the-art research models fail on many of our test examples, for high- and low-resource languages. Our tests reveal novel errors that have not previously been reported in NMT systems, to the best of our knowledge. Lastly, we discuss strategies to mitigate numerical mistranslation.

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