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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.