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 alm...
The hierarchical Pitman-Yor process-based smoothing method applied to language model was proposed by Goldwater and by Teh; the performance of this smoothing method is shown compara...
The alignment problem--establishing links between corresponding phrases in two related sentences--is as important in natural language inference (NLI) as it is in machine translati...
Bill MacCartney, Michel Galley, Christopher D. Man...
Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU...
Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsk...