Microsoft Translator Hub: Discussion of BLEU Score

Chris Wendt interviews Dr. Will Lewis to get a deeper insight into automatic scoring of customized machine translation systems. Microsoft Translator Hub & Bing Translator use an automatic scoring mechanism known as BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy). Dr. Will Lewis explains how this scoring mechanism works, how it compares to human evaluation and what factors impact BLEU score.

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Chris Wendt and Will Lewis