@inproceedings{chow-etal-2019-wmdo,
title = "{WMDO}: Fluency-based Word Mover{'}s Distance for Machine Translation Evaluation",
author = "Chow, Julian and
Specia, Lucia and
Madhyastha, Pranava",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fourth Conference on Machine Translation (Volume 2: Shared Task Papers, Day 1)",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/W19-5356",
doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-5356",
pages = "494--500",
abstract = "We propose WMDO, a metric based on distance between distributions in the semantic vector space. Matching in the semantic space has been investigated for translation evaluation, but the constraints of a translation{'}s word order have not been fully explored. Building on the Word Mover{'}s Distance metric and various word embeddings, we introduce a fragmentation penalty to account for fluency of a translation. This word order extension is shown to perform better than standard WMD, with promising results against other types of metrics.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[WMDO: Fluency-based Word Mover’s Distance for Machine Translation Evaluation](https://aclanthology.org/W19-5356) (Chow et al., 2019)
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