Learning to Translate: A Statistical and Computational Analysis

Table 2

Correlation coefficient between evaluation scores.

	BLEU	NIST	METEOR	TER
BLEU	1	0.724	0.8633	−0.866
NIST	0.724	1	0.6171	−0.8702
METEOR	0.8633	0.6171	1	−0.8173
TER	−0.866	−0.8702	−0.8173	1