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title = "{VERT}a: Linguistic features in {MT} evaluation",
author = "Comelles, Elisabet and
Atserias, Jordi and
Arranz, Victoria and
Castell{\'o}n, Irene",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'12)",
month = may,
year = "2012",
address = "Istanbul, Turkey",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/763_Paper.pdf",
pages = "3944--3950",
abstract = "In the last decades, a wide range of automatic metrics that use linguistic knowledge has been developed. Some of them are based on lexical information, such as METEOR; others rely on the use of syntax, either using constituent or dependency analysis; and others use semantic information, such as Named Entities and semantic roles. All these metrics work at a specific linguistic level, but some researchers have tried to combine linguistic information, either by combining several metrics following a machine-learning approach or focusing on the combination of a wide variety of metrics in a simple and straightforward way. However, little research has been conducted on how to combine linguistic features from a linguistic point of view. In this paper we present VERTa, a metric which aims at using and combining a wide variety of linguistic features at lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic level. We provide a description of the metric and report some preliminary experiments which will help us to discuss the use and combination of certain linguistic features in order to improve the metric performance",
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%T VERTa: Linguistic features in MT evaluation
%A Comelles, Elisabet
%A Atserias, Jordi
%A Arranz, Victoria
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%X In the last decades, a wide range of automatic metrics that use linguistic knowledge has been developed. Some of them are based on lexical information, such as METEOR; others rely on the use of syntax, either using constituent or dependency analysis; and others use semantic information, such as Named Entities and semantic roles. All these metrics work at a specific linguistic level, but some researchers have tried to combine linguistic information, either by combining several metrics following a machine-learning approach or focusing on the combination of a wide variety of metrics in a simple and straightforward way. However, little research has been conducted on how to combine linguistic features from a linguistic point of view. In this paper we present VERTa, a metric which aims at using and combining a wide variety of linguistic features at lexical, morphological, syntactic and semantic level. We provide a description of the metric and report some preliminary experiments which will help us to discuss the use and combination of certain linguistic features in order to improve the metric performance
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%P 3944-3950
Markdown (Informal)
[VERTa: Linguistic features in MT evaluation](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/763_Paper.pdf) (Comelles et al., LREC 2012)
ACL
- Elisabet Comelles, Jordi Atserias, Victoria Arranz, and Irene Castellón. 2012. VERTa: Linguistic features in MT evaluation. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 3944–3950, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).