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
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