The Meteor Score (Metric For Evaluation Of Translation With Explicit Ordering)
The METEOR score is a metric used to evaluate machine translation by comparing it to human translations. It takes into account both the accuracy and fluency of the translation, as well as the order in which words appear. The METEOR score ranges from 0 to 1, with a higher score indicating better translation quality.
Areas of application
- 1. Translation software development
- 2. Quality assessment of machine translation systems
- 3. Research in natural language processing
- 4. Evaluation of translation services providers
- 5. Comparative studies of different machine translation approaches.
Example
For instance, a machine translation system may receive a METEOR score of 0.8 for translating a sentence from English to Spanish, indicating that it performed well in terms of accuracy and fluency, but could improve in terms of word order.