@inproceedings{panja-naskar-2018-iter,
    title = "{ITER}: Improving Translation Edit Rate through Optimizable Edit Costs",
    author = "Panja, Joybrata  and
      Naskar, Sudip Kumar",
    editor = "Bojar, Ond{\v{r}}ej  and
      Chatterjee, Rajen  and
      Federmann, Christian  and
      Fishel, Mark  and
      Graham, Yvette  and
      Haddow, Barry  and
      Huck, Matthias  and
      Yepes, Antonio Jimeno  and
      Koehn, Philipp  and
      Monz, Christof  and
      Negri, Matteo  and
      N{\'e}v{\'e}ol, Aur{\'e}lie  and
      Neves, Mariana  and
      Post, Matt  and
      Specia, Lucia  and
      Turchi, Marco  and
      Verspoor, Karin",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third Conference on Machine Translation: Shared Task Papers",
    month = oct,
    year = "2018",
    address = "Belgium, Brussels",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/W18-6455/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W18-6455",
    pages = "746--750",
    abstract = "The paper presents our participation in the WMT 2018 Metrics Shared Task. We propose an improved version of Translation Edit/Error Rate (TER). In addition to including the basic edit operations in TER, namely - insertion, deletion, substitution and shift, our metric also allows stem matching, optimizable edit costs and better normalization so as to correlate better with human judgement scores. The proposed metric shows much higher correlation with human judgments than TER."
}