[metric] NIST is a method for evaluating the quality of text which has been translated using machine translation. Its name comes from the US National Institute of Standards and Technology. It is based on the BLEU metric, but with some alterations. Where BLEU simply calculates n-gram precision adding equal weight to each one, NIST also calcu... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIST_(metric)
National institute of Standards and Technology. Formerly the NBS, this U.S. government organization supports and catalogs a variety of standards. Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/22803