Looking under the Wrong Lamppost: On the Limitations of Automated Translation Quality Estimation
Automation of Translation Quality Estimation (QE) has emerged as a widely discussed approach to managing translation quality at scale, and a growing number of tools and technologies have been released in pursuit of this goal. However, the proliferation of new QE systems has not always been accompanied by robust, transparent, and reproducible research and testing. This gap deserves critical scrutiny. This paper examines some fundamental limitations of the QE technology from both theoretical and empirical perspectives, arguing that current QE systems are structurally ill-equipped to serve as reliable standalone tools in real-world translation workflows. The reviewed evidence suggests that Q...
| Authors | Serge Gladkoff, Angelika Vaasa, Sue Ellen Wright et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 4 August 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 4 August 2026 |
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