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BLEU+: a Tool for Fine-Grained BLEU Computation

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BLEU+: a Tool for Fine-Grained BLEU Computation
We present a tool, BLEU+, which implements various extension to BLEU computation to allow for a better understanding of the translation performance, especially for morphologically complex languages. BLEU+ takes into account both "closeness" in morphological structure, "closeness" of the root words in the WordNet hierarchy while comparing tokens in the candidate and reference sentence. In addition to gauging performance at a finer level of granularity, BLEU+ also allows the computation of various upper bound oracle scores: comparing all tokens considering only the roots allows us to get an upper bound when all errors due to morphological structure are fixed, while comparing tokens in an error-tolerant way considering minor morpheme edit operations, allows us to get a (more realistic) upper bound when tokens that differ in morpheme insertions/deletions and substitutions are fixed. We use BLEU+ in the fine-grained evaluation of the output of our English-to-Turkish sta...
A. Cüneyd Tantug, Kemal Oflazer, Ilknur Durga
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Type Conference
Year 2008
Where LREC
Authors A. Cüneyd Tantug, Kemal Oflazer, Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout
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