WMT24 Metrics Task: Call for Participation

[Eleftherios Avramidis]

Hi all,

the 9th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT24), collocated with EMNLP 2024, will be featuring this year the Shared Task on evaluation of Automatic Metrics. We are looking for both reference-based metrics and reference-free metrics to evaluate the quality of MT systems. We’ll be using expert-based MQM annotations on English-German, English-Spanish and Japanese⇾Chinese as the primary gold standard for evaluating metrics. Details are at http://www2.statmt.org/wmt24/metrics-task.html.

We’ll be continuing the challenge sets subtask this year: we invite anyone to submit a new test suite and/or an analysis paper on metric behaviour for specific perturbations/phenomena (you’re welcome to resubmit last year’s challenge set!)

New this year:

• New language pairs: English-Spanish and Japanese⇾Chinese 
• Additional 13 typologically diverse African languages in a challenge set
• We will be using the Codabench platform to improve the metric submission experience

Important dates:

Challenge sets submission deadline: 11th July

Metrics inputs ready to download: 23rd July

Metric submission deadline: 30th July

Metric scores for challenge sets distributed: 6th August

Paper submission deadline to WMT: 20th August

Please register your metric submissions here and challenge set submissions here so we can keep track of participants. 

Looking forward to your submissions,

WMT24 Metrics team