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| -rw-r--r-- | mteval/ns.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mteval/ns.h b/mteval/ns.h index d88c263b..4e4c6975 100644 --- a/mteval/ns.h +++ b/mteval/ns.h @@ -94,6 +94,10 @@ class EvaluationMetric { public: const std::string& MetricId() const { return name_; } + // returns true for metrics like WER and TER where lower scores are better + // false for metrics like BLEU and METEOR where higher scores are better + virtual bool IsErrorMetric() const; + virtual unsigned SufficientStatisticsVectorSize() const; virtual float ComputeScore(const SufficientStats& stats) const = 0; virtual std::string DetailedScore(const SufficientStats& stats) const; |