Linnea Micciulla


2013

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teragram: Rule-based detection of sentiment phrases using SAS Sentiment Analysis
Hilke Reckman | Cheyanne Baird | Jean Crawford | Richard Crowell | Linnea Micciulla | Saratendu Sethi | Fruzsina Veress
Second Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM), Volume 2: Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval 2013)

2006

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A Study of Translation Edit Rate with Targeted Human Annotation
Matthew Snover | Bonnie Dorr | Rich Schwartz | Linnea Micciulla | John Makhoul
Proceedings of the 7th Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas: Technical Papers

We examine a new, intuitive measure for evaluating machine-translation output that avoids the knowledge intensiveness of more meaning-based approaches, and the labor-intensiveness of human judgments. Translation Edit Rate (TER) measures the amount of editing that a human would have to perform to change a system output so it exactly matches a reference translation. We show that the single-reference variant of TER correlates as well with human judgments of MT quality as the four-reference variant of BLEU. We also define a human-targeted TER (or HTER) and show that it yields higher correlations with human judgments than BLEU—even when BLEU is given human-targeted references. Our results indicate that HTER correlates with human judgments better than HMETEOR and that the four-reference variants of TER and HTER correlate with human judgments as well as—or better than—a second human judgment does.

2005

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A Methodology for Extrinsically Evaluating Information Extraction Performance
Michael Crystal | Alex Baron | Katherine Godfrey | Linnea Micciulla | Yvette Tenney | Ralph Weischedel
Proceedings of Human Language Technology Conference and Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing