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To keep updated on new versions of this software, subscribe to our low-traffic announcement mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/multeval-announce. All active users are encourated to subscribe.

Usage
=====
Download
========

First, download and unpack the program:

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tar -xvzf multeval-0.5.1.tgz
```

Building from source
====================

Should you want to build MultEval yourself instead of using the provided tarball distribution, you'll need to download meteor using get_deps.sh. Then you can just run ant:

``` bash
$ ./get_deps.sh # Download meteor
$ ant
```

NOTE: There's a strange generics-related javac bug that's known to cause the build to fail under OpenJDK V1.6.0_17. However, this seems to be resolved as of version 1.6.0_21.


Usage
=====

To evaluate a single system from the example data and get its BLEU, METEOR, and TER scores along with its standard deviation use:

``` bash
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* Google Guava (Apache License)
* Java Annotation Options (jannopts, LGPL License)

Building
========

Should you want to build MultEval yourself instead of using the provided tarball distribution, you'll need to download meteor using get_deps.sh. Then you can just run ant:

``` bash
$ ./get_deps.sh # Download meteor
$ ant
```

NOTE: There's a strange generics-related javac bug that's known to cause the build to fail under OpenJDK V1.6.0_17. However, this seems to be resolved as of version 1.6.0_21.


Citation
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