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Limits RegistryMicrosoft researchers reported in March 2018 that their neural machine translation system reached human parity on the WMT 2017 Chinese-to-English newstest set, with bilingual evaluators unable to distinguish its quality from professional human translations. Later studies argued that document-level evaluation can still reveal gaps.
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Microsoft researchers reported in March 2018 that their neural machine translation system reached human parity on the WMT 2017 Chinese-to-English newstest set, with bilingual evaluators unable to distinguish its quality from professional human translations. Later studies argued that document-level evaluation can still reveal gaps.
The year in which a machine translation system's output was first judged by bilingual human evaluators to be of equal quality to professional human translations on a standard news test set.
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Limits Registry. LR-MACHINE-TRANSLATION-HUMAN-PARITY-NEWS. First claimed human parity in Chinese–English news translation. 2026.