Paper ID: 2204.13352

RoBLEURT Submission for the WMT2021 Metrics Task

Yu Wan, Dayiheng Liu, Baosong Yang, Tianchi Bi, Haibo Zhang, Boxing Chen, Weihua Luo, Derek F. Wong, Lidia S. Chao

In this paper, we present our submission to Shared Metrics Task: RoBLEURT (Robustly Optimizing the training of BLEURT). After investigating the recent advances of trainable metrics, we conclude several aspects of vital importance to obtain a well-performed metric model by: 1) jointly leveraging the advantages of source-included model and reference-only model, 2) continuously pre-training the model with massive synthetic data pairs, and 3) fine-tuning the model with data denoising strategy. Experimental results show that our model reaching state-of-the-art correlations with the WMT2020 human annotations upon 8 out of 10 to-English language pairs.

Submitted: Apr 28, 2022