# BLEU Projects at AI Tinkerers

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BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy) is the industry-standard metric for automatically assessing machine translation quality: it correlates MT output with human reference translations using modified n-gram precision.

BLEU is a core metric for machine translation (MT) evaluation, introduced by IBM Researchers Kishore Papineni, Salim Roukos, Todd Ward, and Wei-Jing Zhu at the 2002 ACL conference. It quantifies translation quality by comparing the machine-generated text (candidate) against one or more human-created reference translations. The algorithm primarily relies on modified n-gram precision, counting the overlap of word sequences (up to 4-grams are common) between the candidate and the references. A brevity penalty is applied to discourage overly short translations. The final BLEU score is a single number between 0 and 1: a score closer to 1.0 indicates higher similarity to the human reference, establishing it as a quick, inexpensive, and highly correlated alternative to costly human evaluation.

- Official technology site: https://aclanthology.org/P02-1040/
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Experiences building a copilot for a specialized domain](https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_JcsEGqOZ6bk)

Existing approaches to understanding, developing and researching specialized domains like modern wireless communication technologies involves time-intensive and arduous process of sifting through numerous webpages and technical specification documents, gathering the required information and synthesizing it. This paper presents NextGen Communications Copilot, a conversational artificial intelligence tool for information synthesis of wireless communication specifications. The system builds on top of recent advancements in foundation models and consists of three key additional components: a domain-specific database, a context extractor, and a feedback mechanism. The system appends user queries with concise and query-dependant contextual information extracted from a database of wireless technical specifications and incorporates tools for expert feedback and data contributions. On evaluation using a benchmark dataset of queries and reference responses created by subject matter experts, the system demonstrated more relevant and accurate answers with an average BLEU score and BERTScore F1-measure of 0.37 and 0.79 respectively compared to the corresponding values of 0.07 and 0.59 achieved by state-of-the-art tools like ChatGPT.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Seattle - August Meetup — 2023-08-09 — Seattle
- Public talk page: https://seattle.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_JcsEGqOZ6bk

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