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Constructive machine translation evaluation

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When surveying the many methods currently employed in MT evaluation,1 it is not immediately obvious that the methods used serve to increase the knowledge of the properties being measured. This report describes aconstructive machine translation evaluation method, aimed at addressing this issue.2

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  1. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Japan

    Stephen Minnis

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Edited version of a presentation given to the International Working Group on the Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems, Vaud, Switzerland, April 1991.

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Minnis, S. Constructive machine translation evaluation. Mach Translat 8, 67–75 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00981244

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