Stationarity or Canonical Form
Do repeated translations converge on a single expression in both languages? I.e. does the translation method show stationarity or produce a canonical form. Does the translation become stationary without losing the original meaning? This metric has been criticized as not being well correlated with BLEU (BiLingual Evaluation Understudy) scores
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