Bleu or BLEU may refer to:
William James McAuley III (born July 18, 1975), best known by his performing name, Bleu, is an American pop artist (singer-songwriter), professional songwriter and producer currently living in Los Angeles. Bleu graduated from the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with his solo work, he is the lead singer and songwriter of the Electric Light Orchestra-style power pop band L.E.O., as well as a founding member of the power pop trio The Major Labels with Mike Viola and Ducky Carlisle, and is also a founding member of the Mutt Lange homage super-group LoudLion (featuring Taylor Locke of Rooney, Allison Robertson of The Donnas, Maclaine Diemer formerly of Bang Camaro, etc.). Bleu has toured the United States and internationally with bands such as John Mayer, Puffy AmiYumi, Hanson, Guster, Rooney, Mike Viola, Switchfoot, and Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Bleu was known in the local Boston music scene for his live shows and work with other musicians, and received some local notoriety for his debut effort A Bing Bang Holidang, which was a charity benefit for the Boston Institute for Arts Therapy. A single from that record, "Boston All Star 12 Dayz," received some local airplay, featuring famous local musicians and acts from Guster and The Mighty Mighty Bosstones as well as Kay Hanley of Letters to Cleo and Bill Janovitz.
BLEU (bilingual evaluation understudy) is an algorithm for evaluating the quality of text which has been machine-translated from one natural language to another. Quality is considered to be the correspondence between a machine's output and that of a human: "the closer a machine translation is to a professional human translation, the better it is" – this is the central idea behind BLEU. BLEU was one of the first metrics to achieve a high correlation with human judgements of quality, and remains one of the most popular automated and inexpensive metrics.
Scores are calculated for individual translated segments—generally sentences—by comparing them with a set of good quality reference translations. Those scores are then averaged over the whole corpus to reach an estimate of the translation's overall quality. Intelligibility or grammatical correctness are not taken into account.
BLEU is designed to approximate human judgement at a corpus level, and performs badly if used to evaluate the quality of individual sentences.
Somebody may refer to:
"Somebody" is a country music song written by Dave Berg, Sam Tate, and Annie Tate. It was initially recorded by singer Mark Wills for his 2001 studio album Loving Every Minute. Reba McEntire later recorded the same song for her 2003 album Room to Breathe, releasing it as that album's second single in January 2004. By August of that year, McEntire's version had reached the top of the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts.
The song debuted at number 55 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks for the week ending January 17, 2004.
"Somebody" is the B-side to Aerosmith's first single, "Dream On", from their 1973 debut album, Aerosmith. Written by lead singer Steven Tyler and his friend Steven Emspak and released in June 1973, its A-side peaked at number 59 nationally but hit big in the band's native Boston, where it was the number 1 single of the year on the less commercial top 40 station, WBZ-FM, number 5 for the year on highly rated Top 40 WRKO-AM, and number 16 on heritage Top 40 WMEX-AM.
"Somebody" is driven by a basic blues guitar riff and Tyler's lyrics tell the story of a character trying to search for the woman of his dreams. The character is in need of someone who shares the work with him and has been through the same difficulties in their life as he has. Originally written in 1970.
Aerosmith regularly performed this song throughout the early seventies, the first known time was in Mendon, Massachusetts on November 6, 1970 at Nipmuc Regional High School. The last-known performance of the song was in Yokohama on June 26, 1988 at the Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium during the Permanent Vacation Tour.
Lyrics and music by Michael Lambeth
Can’t clear the thoughts through my head, something in my heart that won’t accept, disappointment and regret.
Can’t help the anger in my mind, the lonely frustration’s of desire,
False hopes I didn’t see, self intentions you didn’t mean.
The realisation of my hurt, questioning my self worth,
Would it help if I were someone else?
It may have worked if you could only see,
Qualities you couldn’t see, false hopes I didn’t see, jaded thoughts and apathy.
Disappointment possesses me,
Rejection and disbelief,
A happy ending I cannot see.
Something in my heart that can’t quite accept,
Your apathy and indifference.
‘May have worked if you could only see, things in common and personality,
Another lifetime could have been.
What you wanted I could never be, jadedness and imagery,
Real friendship you deny me,
With your convenient lies and dishonesty!
Disappointment possesses me, rejection and irony,
Self intentions you didn’t mean.
Something in my heart that can’t quite accept,
Your apathy and indifference.
Thought you said you felt close to me?
Angry now, I feel I’m deceived.
Cannot look me now in the eyes, your vagueness I despise.
Cannot look me now in the eyes, I look at you but you pass me by,
My desperation I can’t abide, now I see love is blind!
Disappointment possesses me,
Rejection and disbelief,
A happy ending I cannot see.
Something in my heart that can’t quite accept,
Your apathy and indifference.