Concept information
Preferred term
fluency
Definition
- Evaluation criterion measuring whether a generated text is grammatically correct, natural-sounding, and easy to read, independent of its meaning faithfulness. (Based on Wikipedia, 2024, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaluation_of_machine_translation)
Broader concept
Note
- Fluency measures whether a translation is fluent, regardless of the correct meaning, while Adequacy measures whether the translation conveys the correct meaning, even if the translation is not fully fluent. Fluency and Adequacy are frequently measured together on a discrete 5 or 7 point scale, with their average being used as a single score of translation quality. (Snover et al., Fluency, Adequacy, or HTER? Exploring Different Human Judgments with a Tunable MT Metric, 2009, https://aclanthology.org/W09-0441/)
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French
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