CDER: Efficient MT Evaluation Using Block Movements

Most state-of-the-art evaluation measures for machine translation assign high costs to movements of word blocks. In many cases though such movements still result in correct or almost correct sentences. In this paper, we will present a new evaluation measure which explicitly models block reordering as an edit operation. Our measure can be exactly calculated in quadratic time. Furthermore, we will show how some evaluation measures can be improved

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: EACL
• Authors: Gregor Leusch, Nicola Ueffing, Hermann Ney
• Keywords: Correct Sentences, EACL 2006, Evaluation Measures, Natural Language Processing, State-of-the-art Evaluation Measures