Accuracy evaluation of sentences translated to intermediate language in back translation

Abstract

The back-translation method is used to check the accuracy of a sentence translated to a native language. We believe that there exits a positive correlation between the accuracy of sentences translated to an intermediate language and that of back-translated sentences. However, this has not yet been verified. However, some back-translated sentences have high accuracy even if the translated sentence is inaccurate. Therefore, we have to verify the correlation between the accuracy of sentences translated to an intermediate language and that of back-translated sentences. We have evaluated the accuracy of back-translated sentences and that of sentences translated to an intermediate language to establish the correlation between the two accuracies. We have obtained the following results: (1) There exists a positive correlation between the accuracy of sentences translated to an intermediate language and that of back-translated sentences. (2) The occurrence rate of an accuracy mismatch case, wherein a back-translated sentence is accurate but the translated sentence is inaccurate, is less than or equal to 0.5%. (3) Back-translation can be used to check the accuracy of a translated sentence.