Title from disc label. Author: NIST Multimodal Information Group. Data type: Text. Data sources: Newswire, Web collection. Application: Machine translation.
Summary:
"NIST 2008-2012 open machine translation (OpenMT) progress test sets was developed by NIST Multimodal Information Group. This release contains the evaluation sets (source data and human reference translations), DTD, scoring software, and evaluation plans for the Arabic-to-English and Chinese-to-English progress test sets for the NIST OpenMT 2008, 2009, and 2012 evaluations .... The objective of the OpenMT evaluation series is to support research in, and help advance the state of the art of, machine translation (MT) technologies -- technologies that translate text between human languages. Input may include all forms of text. The goal is for the output to be an adequate and fluent translation of the original." -- LDC online catalogue.
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