Task: Question Generation
Input (English): On inspection, the drop in performance between translated and original Japanese was often a result of translations that were reasonable but not consistent with the labels. For example, when translating the first example in Figure FIGREF2, both machine translations map “UTF8min風邪”, which means cold (the illness), into “UTF8min寒さ”, which means cold (low temperature). Another example is where the Japanese pseudo-tweet “UTF8min花粉症の時期はすごい疲れる。” was provided alongside an English pseudo-tweet “Allergy season is so exhausting.”. Here, the Japanese word for hay fever “UTF8min花粉症。” has been manually mapped to the less specific word “allergies” in English; the machine translation maps back to Japanese using the word for “allergies” i.e. “UTF8minアレルギー” in the katakana alphabet (katakana is used to express words derived from foreign languages), since there is no kanji character for the concept of allergies.
Output (English): Is there any explanation why some choice of language pair is better than the other?