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title: "## Paper"
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licence: MIT
domain: agentic-ai
subdomain: eleutherai-lm-eval
date_added: 2026-04-25
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## Paper
Title: `NTREX-128 – News Test References for MT Evaluation of 128 Languages`

Paper Link: https://aclanthology.org/2022.sumeval-1.4/

## Abstract
>We release NTREX-128, a data set for machine translation (MT) evaluation from English into a total of 128 target languages. The paper describes the data creation process and proposes a quality filtering method based on human evaluation. We show experimental results which confirm that the directionality of test sets translation indeed plays an important role wrt. the usefulness of the corresponding metrics’ scores. Thus, we recommend that the NTREX-128 data set should be used for evaluation of Englishsourced translation models but not in reverse direction. The test set release introduces another benchmark for the evaluation of massively multilingual machine translation research.

HomePage: https://github.com/MicrosoftTranslator/NTREX

### Citation

```
@inproceedings{federmann-etal-2022-ntrex,
    title = "{NTREX}-128 {--} News Test References for {MT} Evaluation of 128 Languages",
    author = "Federmann, Christian  and
      Kocmi, Tom  and
      Xin, Ying",
    editor = "Ahuja, Kabir  and
      Anastasopoulos, Antonios  and
      Patra, Barun  and
      Neubig, Graham  and
      Choudhury, Monojit  and
      Dandapat, Sandipan  and
      Sitaram, Sunayana  and
      Chaudhary, Vishrav",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Scaling Up Multilingual Evaluation",
    month = nov,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Online",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.sumeval-1.4/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.sumeval-1.4",
    pages = "21--24"
}
```
