"reference sentence" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
For example, "In the reference sentence, we can see the main idea of the entire paragraph."
Closer proximity to the Reference sentence is indicated by higher Accuracy, NIST and BLEU values, but lower Edit-distance.
This means that two sentences have to be specified in the input: the (input) sentence to be moved and the (reference) sentence indicating its new position.
The main purpose of the evaluation was to measure the closeness between each System and Reference sentence pairs, and for reasons discussed in Sect.
An operation of change can be so constructed that it adjusts the position of the input sentence in an ordering to be the same as that of a reference sentence.
(In the case of multiple reference sentences, r is taken to be the sum of the lengths of the sentences whose lengths are closest to the lengths of the candidate sentences. However, in the version of the metric used by NIST evaluations prior to 2009, the shortest reference sentence had been used instead).
Instead, this information is presented within a reference sentence for the interaction in the HHPID and is unable to be filtered in a standard database query.
Edit-distance, BLEU and NIST scores, by contrast, represent more fine grained metrics of closeness between System and Reference sentences, and are therefore to be preferred.
A few reference grammars address sentence spacing, as increased spacing between words is punctuation in itself.
However, each choice creates a different meaning, even though the only difference is in the reference in sentence i, the Theme in sentence ii and the information structure in sentence iii.
5. On any conception of reference, a sentence like 'He is asleep' refers only relative to a context of utterance.
And there it was: an average of one third-person reference per sentence.
