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We propose new evaluation metrics for statutory sentences translated from Japanese to English. Since translation variety is unacceptable and consistency is crucial in legal translation, a new metric called CIEL has been proposed that evaluates translation consistency. That metric is based on precision with a recall strategy. However, since we believe that recall-oriented metrics are more suitable for consistent evaluation, we propose recall-oriented metrics to evaluate the consistency of legal translations and illustrate their performances by comparing them with other metrics.
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Ogawa, Y., Mori, M., Toyama, K. (2012). Recall-Oriented Evaluation Metrics for Consistent Translation of Japanese Legal Sentences. In: Okumura, M., Bekki, D., Satoh, K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI-isAI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7258. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32090-3_13
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