Satzgewinne

Satzgewinne is a term used in German-language linguistics and computational linguistics to describe improvements in the quality of individual sentences that result from applying a technique or process. The word combines Satz (sentence) and Gewinne (gains). The term is not a formal technical standard but appears in studies of grammar checking, paraphrase generation, and post-edited machine translation, where researchers distinguish sentence-level gains from broader document-level effects.

Satzgewinne are typically assessed with a mix of objective metrics—such as grammaticality, agreement, punctuation, and readability scores—and with human judgments of fluency and clarity. In machine translation and text generation, they refer to improvements in single sentences rather than overall corpus measures.

Example: in a post-editing experiment, a revised model may yield higher Satzgewinne, with a majority of test sentences rated as fluent and correct compared with the baseline.

Because the term is informal and definitions vary, researchers should specify criteria and complement Satzgewinne with established sentence- and text-quality measures to enable meaningful comparisons. The concept is most useful when it is framed as a sentence-level counterpart to broader quality assessments, helping to isolate improvements that specifically affect individual sentences rather than entire texts.

See also: Satzqualität, Textqualität, Readability, Natural Language Processing, Machine Translation, Paraphrase.