Concept information
Preferred term
adequacy
Definition
- The amount of semantic content from the source language document that is conveyed in the target language document. (Reeder, Measuring MT Adequacy Using Latent Semantic Analysis, 2006, https://aclanthology.org/2006.amta-papers.20/)
Broader concept
Note
- Adequacy is usually measured on an ordinal scale: a typical scale ranges from 1 (understood as indicating that none of the meaning expressed in the source segment is expressed in the machine translated segment) to 4 (understood as meaning that all the meaning expressed in the source segment is expressed in the machine translated segment). (Kenny, Machine translation for everyone: Empowering users in the age of artificial intelligence, 2022, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6653406)
- 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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