Thank you Prasanth....but why i am getting such a low bleu score...actually
i have a very small corpus..about 2500 sentences..is it because of that ???

*Pranjal Das*
Department of Information Technology,
Institute of Science and Technology,
Gauhati University,Guwahati,Assam
Phone- +91-8399879454


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Prasanth K <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi Pranjal,
>
> Its not uncommon to observe such differences when changing the direction
> of translation. Translation from English to Bengali is relatively harder as
> Bengali is morphologically rich, making it difficult for the correct
> surface forms to be generated. Given that BLEU is a pattern matching
> algorithm comparing surface forms, the drop in the score could be partly
> attributed to not being able to generate the correct surface forms.
>
> You can look at the EuroMatrix, where similar patterns can be observed.
> Translation from English->Finnish gives better results than the other way
> around.
> http://www.statmt.org/matrix/
>
> Prasanth
>
> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 4:21 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
>>
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