| Cohesive Ties |
| Human Translator | Google-SMT | Google-NMT | Baidu-SMT | Baidu-NMT | Bing-SMT | Bing-NMT |
| Reference | Personal pronouns | 11 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 9 |
| Demonstratives | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | |
| Definite article | 56 | 47 | 50 | 73 | 55 | 39 | 46 | |
| Comparatives | 4 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |
| Adverbs | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| Personal pronouns | 11 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 9 | |
| Sub-total | 85 | 71 | 75 | 92 | 78 | 64 | 73 | |
| Conjunction | Additive | 44 | 37 | 47 | 42 | 45 | 41 | 38 |
| Adversative | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | |
| Causal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Temporal | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sub-total | 49 | 41 | 50 | 48 | 48 | 44 | 41 | |
| Total | 134 | 112 | 125 | 140 | 126 | 108 | 114 | |