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The BLEU score has some undesirable properties when used for single
sentences, as it was designed to be a corpus measure. We therefore
use a slightly different score for our RL experiments which we call
the 'GLEU score'. For the GLEU score, we record all sub-sequences of
1, 2, 3 or 4 tokens in output and target sequence (n-grams). We then
compute a recall, which is the ratio of the number of matching n-grams
to the number of total n-grams in the target (ground truth) sequence,
and a precision, which is the ratio of the number of matching n-grams
to the number of total n-grams in the generated output sequence. Then
GLEU score is simply the minimum of recall and precision. This GLEU
score's range is always between 0 (no matches) and 1 (all match) and
it is symmetrical when switching output and target. According to
our experiments, GLEU score correlates quite well with the BLEU
metric on a corpus level but does not have its drawbacks for our per
sentence reward objective.