LING571

Quiz #3

11/29/05

 

 

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  1. (20 points) Let
    • InsCost=DelCost=SubCost=1.0
    • Ref = “w1 w2 w3”
    • Sys = “w2 w1 w4 w3”

 

    1. (7 pts) Write down the array D[i][j]

 

                w1    w2   w3

          --------------------

         |  0    1       2      3   |

w2    |  1    1       1      2   |

w1    |  2    1       2      2   |

w4    |  3    2       2      3   |

w3    |  4    3       3      2   |

                           ---------------------

 

    1. (2 pts) What is the edit distance?

                         It is 2

 

    1. (3 pts) What’s the sequence of operations that turns Sys into Ref?

           Del w2, and replace w4 with w2

 

    1. (8 pts) What are the values of WER? PER? SSA? GSA?

                           WER=2/3

                           PER=1/3

                           SSA=1-2/3=1/3

                           GSA=1-2/3=1/3

 

 

  1. (10 pts) Let
    • Sys = “a cat sat on the floor”
    • Ref1 = “on the floor sat a big cat”
    • Ref2 = “there was a large cat on the floor”

 

    1. (8 pts) What are unigram, bigram, trigram precision?

                           p1 = 1.0, p2=2/5, p3=1/4

 

    1. (2 pts) What is the Bleu score, given N=3?

         BLEU = e^{-1/6} * (0.1)^(1/3) = 0.393