Ben Humphreys • Segmentation and Evaluation

Segmentation and Evaluation This is just a short post as it’s too long to put on Twitter. Today I tried segmenting NTCIR-7 English–Japanese MT data by various methods and seeing if it affected their BLEU and RIBES scores. Using BLEU on the character level was tried in BLEU in characters (Denoul 2005), in which they showed that for English, BLEU on the character level correlates with word-level BLE