##  [BLEU Score](/index.php/bleu-score) 

  ##  [BLEU Score](https://humanitites.quantumdictionary.io/bleu-score-0) 

  

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**Humanities & Arts Dictionary**

 







 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Definition

An automatic, precision-oriented metric for evaluating machine translation output by comparing n-gram matches between a candidate translation and one or more reference translations; it aggregates n-gram precisions (typically via geometric mean) and applies a brevity penalty to penalize excessively short candidates.