Hi, BLEU scores are generally lower for morphologically richer languages, both because these add the additional problem of choosing the right inflection. English has very little inflection, and hence BLEU scores into English are generally lower.
Please see for instance: http://matrix.statmt.org/ -phi On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Pranjal Das <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all.. > While doing Bengali to English translation i got a bleu score of 7.02 > and doing English to Bengali i got 4.7 > > why is the difference so high as i am using the same parallel corpus ?? > > > Pranjal Das > Department of Information Technology, > Institute of Science and Technology, > Gauhati University,Guwahati,Assam > Phone- +91-8399879454 > > _______________________________________________ > Moses-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support > _______________________________________________ Moses-support mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/moses-support
