Abstract
This paper describes a simple evaluation metric for MT which attempts to overcome the well-known deficits of the standard BLEU metric from a slightly different angle. It employs Levenshtein?s edit distance for establishing alignment between the MT output and the reference translation in order to reflect the morphological properties of highly inflected languages.
It also incorporates a very simple measure expressing the differences in the word order. The paper also includes evaluation on the data from the previous SMT workshop for several language pairs.