oat <B>computeNumerator</B>()</PRE>
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<DD>Computes the numerator for word error rate. <br/> The algorithm requires only O(n^2) iterations, where n=max{ref.length, hyp.length}.
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<DT><B>Specified by:</B><DD><CODE><A HREF="../../issco/eval/ErrorRate.html#computeNumerator()">computeNumerator</A></CODE> in interface <CODE><A HREF="../../issco/eval/ErrorRate.html" title="interface in issco.eval">ErrorRate</A></CODE></DL>
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<DT><B>Returns:</B><DD>the total number of word deletions, 
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