The question is, "significance" to what? Physics and other hard sciences aren't the same as a social science with applied technology.
I think until someone can define a better significance test for human authorship of both original content and translation, I agree with Barry. It's better to keep such evaluations separate projects. Tom On 2013-01-24 21:32, Barry Haddow wrote: > Hi Saeed > > In my experience, significance tests are often badly applied or > interpreted, so I don't get good feelings when I read an MT paper *with* > significance tests. > > I think having such a tool in Moses would make things worse. I don't > want to have to read/review papers which claim that "Moses said it was > significant" ... > > cheers - Barry > > On 24/01/13 10:11, saeed smith wrote: > >> Hi, Just a suggestion: IMHO, adding a significance test implementation to Moses will help users to report such tests. I do not get good feelings when I read a paper with no statistical significance tests. Cheers, SD -- /NRC Center for Language/ _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support [1] > > -- > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support [1] Links: ------ [1] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
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