Following recent developments in the
<term>
automatic evaluation
</term>
of
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machine translation
</term>
and
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document summarization
</term>
, we present a similar approach , implemented in a measure called
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POURPRE
</term>
, for automatically evaluating answers to
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definition questions
</term>
.
#5911Following recent developments in theautomatic evaluation of machine translation and document summarization, we present a similar approach, implemented in a measure called POURPRE, for automatically evaluating answers to definition questions.