Machine Translated Text Detection Through Text Similarity with Round-Trip Translation

Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son, Tran Thao, Seira Hidano, Ishita Gupta, Shinsaku Kiyomoto


Abstract
Translated texts have been used for malicious purposes, i.e., plagiarism or fake reviews. Existing detectors have been built around a specific translator (e.g., Google) but fail to detect a translated text from a strange translator. If we use the same translator, the translated text is similar to its round-trip translation, which is when text is translated into another language and translated back into the original language. However, a round-trip translated text is significantly different from the original text or a translated text using a strange translator. Hence, we propose a detector using text similarity with round-trip translation (TSRT). TSRT achieves 86.9% accuracy in detecting a translated text from a strange translator. It outperforms existing detectors (77.9%) and human recognition (53.3%).
Anthology ID:
2021.naacl-main.462
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
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June
Year:
2021
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Online
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Kristina Toutanova, Anna Rumshisky, Luke Zettlemoyer, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Iz Beltagy, Steven Bethard, Ryan Cotterell, Tanmoy Chakraborty, Yichao Zhou
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NAACL
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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5792–5797
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https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.462
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.462
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Hoang-Quoc Nguyen-Son, Tran Thao, Seira Hidano, Ishita Gupta, and Shinsaku Kiyomoto. 2021. Machine Translated Text Detection Through Text Similarity with Round-Trip Translation. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 5792–5797, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Machine Translated Text Detection Through Text Similarity with Round-Trip Translation (Nguyen-Son et al., NAACL 2021)
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 quocnsh/machine_translation_detection