Spectre/Dissertation

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3 References
4 References to find

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Quotes

"Any MT evaluation measure is less reliable on shorter translations. But, reliability on shorter texts, as short as one sentence or even one phrase, is highly desirable because a reliable MT revaluation measure can greatly accelerate exploratory data analysis." (Turian et al. 2003)
"We claim that WordNets can be used to weight the lexical adequacy. This weight may be computed by measuring the conceptual distance between the node which represents the expected lexical unit and the one which represents the translation obtained." (Marrafa and Ribeiro 2001)
"One problem with conducting correlation experiments with human assessment scores at the sentence level is that the human scores are noisy — that is, the levels of agreement between human judges on the actual sentence level assessment scores is not extremely high." (Banerjee and Lavie 2005)
"... the noise in the human assessments hurts the correlations between automatic scores and human assessments." (Banerjee and Lavie 2005)
" ... want to know if these predictions will hold across a range of target languages and text types." (Babych et al. 2005)
"Low inter-judge correlation in the present experiment underscores how little the community understands about the MT evaluation problem. If the MT research community is serious about designing reliable automatic MT evaluation measures, then we must obtain human judgement data through more reliable means" (Turian et al. 2003)
"... in wider domains, BLEU and NIST may need more than one reference translation or a large test set in order to produce results that correlate reliably with human assessments." (Coughlin 2003)
"... in highly technical domains like ours, a single reference translation is sufficient to produce high-quality results." (Coughlin 2003)
"... a metric that exhibits high levels of correlation with human judgements at the sentence level would be highly desirable." (Lavie 2004)
"It is well-known that using more sentences and more references increases the reliability of MT evaluation." (Turian et al. 2003)

References

Turian, J. P. and Shen, L. and Melamed, I. D. (2003) "Evaluation of Machine Translation and its Evaluation" in MT Summit IX, New Orleans, USA, 23-27 September 2003. pp. 386-393
Marrafa, P. and Ribeiro, A. (2001) "Quantitative Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems: Sentence Level" in MT Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostella, Spain, 18-22 September 2001.
Banerjee, S. and Lavie, A. (2005) "METEOR: An Automatic Metric for MT Evaluation with Improved Correlation with Human Judgments" in Proceedings of Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for MT and/or Summarization at the 43th Annual Meeting of the Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL-2005), Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2005
Babych, B., Hartley, A. and Elliott, D. (2005) "Estimating the predictive power of n-gram MT evaluation metrics across languages and text types" in

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