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title = "{BLEU}+: a Tool for Fine-Grained {BLEU} Computation",
author = {Tantuǧ, A. C{\"u}neyd and
Oflazer, Kemal and
El-Kahlout, Ilknur Durgar},
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios and
Tapias, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'08)",
month = may,
year = "2008",
address = "Marrakech, Morocco",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/L08-1384/",
abstract = "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 statistical MT system."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T BLEU+: a Tool for Fine-Grained BLEU Computation
%A Tantuǧ, A. Cüneyd
%A Oflazer, Kemal
%A El-Kahlout, Ilknur Durgar
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Tapias, Daniel
%S Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08)
%D 2008
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Marrakech, Morocco
%F tantug-etal-2008-bleu
%X 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 statistical MT system.
%U https://aclanthology.org/L08-1384/
Markdown (Informal)
[BLEU+: a Tool for Fine-Grained BLEU Computation](https://aclanthology.org/L08-1384/) (Tantuǧ et al., LREC 2008)
ACL
- A. Cüneyd Tantuǧ, Kemal Oflazer, and Ilknur Durgar El-Kahlout. 2008. BLEU+: a Tool for Fine-Grained BLEU Computation. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).