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BLEU score introduced in paper: BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation (Papineni et al., 2002).
Last verified 2026-05-16 · Methodology veritas-v0.1 · bf5bdd9756278449
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- BLEU score
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- BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation (Papineni et al., 2002)
- Confidence
- 100%
- Tags
- bleu · evaluation-metric · machine-translation · foundational · 2002 · acl · ibm
Sources (2)
[1] peer reviewed · ACL Anthology (Papineni, Roukos, Ward, Zhu) · 2002-07-07
BLEU: a Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation“We propose a method of automatic machine translation evaluation that is quick, inexpensive, and language-independent, that correlates highly with human evaluation, and that has little marginal cost per run.”
[2] docs · Wikipedia
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