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... ∑∑∑∑∈∈∈∈=}{),(}{),()()()(CandidatesCnCSngramCandidatesCnCSngramclipngramCountngramCountnP where Count(ngram) is the number of n- gram counts, and Countclip(ngram) is the maximum number of co-occurrences of ngram ... ),()()()(ferencesRnRSngramferencesRnRSngramclipngramCountngramCountnR where, as before, Count(ngram) is the number of n- gram counts, and Countclip(ngram) is the maximum number of co-occurrences of ngram in the reference answer and its corresponding ... using ST and eliminating the unigrams found in SW. We therefore define a recall score as: ∑∑∑∑∈∈∈∈=}{Re ),(}{Re ),()()()(ferencesRnRSngramferencesRnRSngramclipngramCountngramCountnR...
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