# Quantitative Evaluation of Alternative Translations in a Corpus of Highly Dissimilar Finnish Paraphrases

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.02477 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.02477/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 7 of its 28 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 6 May 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 7 of 7)

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- [Multilingual is not enough: BERT for Finnish](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.07076/) (2019)
- [Open Subtitles Paraphrase Corpus for Six Languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1809.06142/) (2018)
- [Finnish Paraphrase Corpus](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.13103/) (2021)
- [Universal Lemmatizer: A Sequence to Sequence Model for Lemmatizing Universal Dependencies Treebanks](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.00972/) (2019)

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Semantic Search as Extractive Paraphrase Span Detection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2112.04886/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we present a quantitative evaluation of differences between alternative translations in a large recently released Finnish paraphrase corpus focusing in particular on non-trivial variation in translation. We combine a series of automatic steps detecting systematic variation with manual analysis to reveal regularities and identify categories of translation differences. We find the paraphrase corpus to contain highly non-trivial translation variants difficult to recognize through automatic approaches.