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ACL
2009
13 years 2 months ago
Robust Machine Translation Evaluation with Entailment Features
Existing evaluation metrics for machine translation lack crucial robustness: their correlations with human quality judgments vary considerably across languages and genres. We beli...
Sebastian Padó, Michel Galley, Daniel Juraf...
SICHERHEIT
2010
13 years 2 months ago
Quantifying the Attack Surface of a Web Application
Abstract: The attack surface of a system represents the exposure of application objects to attackers and is affected primarily by architecture and design decisions. Given otherwise...
Thomas Heumann, Sven Türpe, Jörg Keller
NAACL
2010
13 years 2 months ago
The Best Lexical Metric for Phrase-Based Statistical MT System Optimization
Translation systems are generally trained to optimize BLEU, but many alternative metrics are available. We explore how optimizing toward various automatic evaluation metrics (BLEU...
Daniel Cer, Christopher D. Manning, Daniel Jurafsk...
ICIP
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
A no-reference image content metric and its application to denoising
A no-reference image metric based on the singular value decomposition of local image gradients is proposed in this paper. This metric provides a quantitative measure of true image...
Xiang Zhu, Peyman Milanfar
ICIP
2010
IEEE
13 years 2 months ago
A no-reference Blocking Artifacts Visibility Estimator in images
In this paper, we present a new low-complexity no-reference metric that assesses the visibility of blocking artifacts in DCT-coded images. The metric works in the spatial domain a...
Gilbert Yammine, Eugen Wige, André Kaup
ICALP
2010
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Metrical Task Systems and the k-Server Problem on HSTs
Abstract. We consider the randomized k-server problem, and give improved results for various metric spaces. In particular, we extend a recent result of Cot
Nikhil Bansal, Niv Buchbinder, Joseph Naor
EMNLP
2010
13 years 2 months ago
PEM: A Paraphrase Evaluation Metric Exploiting Parallel Texts
We present PEM, the first fully automatic metric to evaluate the quality of paraphrases, and consequently, that of paraphrase generation systems. Our metric is based on three crit...
Chang Liu, Daniel Dahlmeier, Hwee Tou Ng
VTC
2010
IEEE
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Metrics for Performance Prediction of Wireless Sensor Networks
—We present the derivation of a novel metric for the performance prediction of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In particular, the metric can be applied in, for example, monitori...
Frank Oldewurtel, Petri Mähönen
TON
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
Weighted spectral distribution for internet topology analysis: theory and applications
Abstract—Comparing graphs to determine the level of underlying structural similarity between them is a widely encountered problem in computer science. It is particularly relevant...
Damien Fay, Hamed Haddadi, Andrew Thomason, Andrew...
TCBB
2010
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13 years 2 months ago
A Metric on the Space of Reduced Phylogenetic Networks
—Phylogenetic networks are leaf-labeled, rooted, acyclic, directed graphs, that are used to model reticulate evolutionary histories. Several measures for quantifying the topologi...
Luay Nakhleh