---
pipeline_tag: translation
language: multilingual
library_name: transformers
license: cc-by-nc-sa-4.0
---

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    🛡️ Guardians of the Machine Translation Meta-Evaluation:<br>
    Sentinel Metrics Fall In!
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This repository contains the **SENTINEL<sub>CAND</sub>** metric model pre-trained on Direct Assessments (DA) annotations and further fine-tuned on Multidimensional Quality Metrics (MQM) data. For furhter details on how to use our sentinel metric models, check our [GitHub repository](https://github.com/SapienzaNLP/guardians-mt-eval).

## Usage

After having installed our repository package, you can use this model within Python in the following way:

```python
from sentinel_metric import download_model, load_from_checkpoint

model_path = download_model("sapienzanlp/sentinel-cand-mqm")
model = load_from_checkpoint(model_path)

data = [
    {"mt": "There's no place like home."},
    {"mt": "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."}
]

output = model.predict(data, batch_size=8, gpus=1)
```

Output:
```python
# Segment scores
>>> output.scores
[0.5421186089515686, 0.29804396629333496]

# System score
>>> output.system_score
0.4200812876224518
```

## Cite this work
This work has been published at [ACL 2024 (main conference)](https://2024.aclweb.org/program/main_conference_papers/). If you use any part, please consider citing our paper as follows:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{perrella-etal-2024-guardians,
    title = "Guardians of the Machine Translation Meta-Evaluation: Sentinel Metrics Fall In!",
    author = "Perrella, Stefano and
      Proietti, Lorenzo  and
      Scirè, Alessandro and
      Barba, Edoardo and
      Navigli, Roberto",
        booktitle = "Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2024)",
    year      = "2024",
    address   = "Bangkok, Thailand",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
}
```

## License
This work is licensed under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).