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BLEU: a MethodforAutomaticEvaluationofMachineTra nslationKishore Papineni,SalimRoukos,ToddWard,andWei-Jin gZhuIBMT. J. monthstofinishandin-volve proposea methodofautomaticma-chinetranslationeval uationthatis quick,inexpensive,andlanguage-independen t,thatcorrelateshighlywithhumanevalu-ati on, presentthismethodasanauto-matedunderstud yto (MT)weighmany aspectsoftranslation,includingade-quacy, fidelity, andfluencyofthetranslation(Hovy,1999;Whi teandO Connell,1994).Acompre-hensive catalogofMTevaluationtechniquesandtheirr ichliteratureis givenbyReeder(2001).
tor and a standard (poor) machine translation system using 4 reference translations for each of 127 source sentences. The average precision results are shown in Figure 1. Figure 1: Distinguishing Human from Machine ˘ ˇ ˆ The strong signal differentiating human (high pre-cision) from machine (low precision) is striking.
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