30 Jul20 Issue #92 – The Importance of References in Evaluating MT Output Author: Dr. Carla Parra Escartín, Global Program Manager @ Iconic Introduction Over the years, BLEU has become the “de facto standard” for Machine Translation automatic evaluation. However, and despite being the metric being referenced in all MT research papers, it is equally criticized for not providing a reliable evaluation of the MT output. In today’s blog post we look at the work done by Freitag et al. […]