Description

METEOR, an automatic metric for machine translation evaluation that is based on a generalized concept of unigram matching between the machine-produced translation and human-produced reference translations. Unigrams can be matched based on their surface forms, stemmed forms, and meanings; furthermore, METEOR can be easily extended to include more advanced matching strategies. Once all generalized unigram matches between the two strings have been found, METEOR computes a score for this matching using a combination of unigram-precision, unigram-recall, and a measure of fragmentation that is designed to directly capture how well-ordered the matched words in the machine translation are in relation to the reference. METEOR gets an R correlation value of 0.347 with human evaluation on the Arabic data and 0.331 on the Chinese data. This is shown to be an improvement on using simply unigram-precision, unigram-recall and their harmonic F1 combination.

from datasets import load_metric
metric = load_metric("meteor")

Citation

@inproceedings{banarjee2005,
  title     = {{METEOR}: An Automatic Metric for {MT} Evaluation with Improved Correlation with Human Judgments},
  author    = {Banerjee, Satanjeev  and Lavie, Alon},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACL} Workshop on Intrinsic and Extrinsic Evaluation Measures for Machine Translation and/or Summarization},
  month     = jun,
  year      = {2005},
  address   = {Ann Arbor, Michigan},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  url       = {https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W05-0909},
  pages     = {65--72},
}