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Interleaved text-and-image generation has been an intriguing research direction, where the models are required to generate both images and text pieces in an arbitrary order. Despite the emerging advancements in interleaved generation, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Minqian Liu , Zhiyang Xu , Zihao Lin , Trevor Ashby , Joy Rimchala , Jiaxin Zhang , Lifu Huang

Existing automatic evaluation metrics for open-domain dialogue response generation systems correlate poorly with human evaluation. We focus on evaluating response generation systems via response selection. To evaluate systems properly via…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Shiki Sato , Reina Akama , Hiroki Ouchi , Jun Suzuki , Kentaro Inui

Model-based, reference-free evaluation metrics have been proposed as a fast and cost-effective approach to evaluate Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems. Despite promising recent results, we find evidence that reference-free evaluation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Esin Durmus , Faisal Ladhak , Tatsunori Hashimoto

Automatic evaluation of various text quality criteria produced by data-driven intelligent methods is very common and useful because it is cheap, fast, and usually yields repeatable results. In this paper, we present an attempt to automate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Erion Çano , Ondřej Bojar

How can we measure whether a natural language generation system produces both high quality and diverse outputs? Human evaluation captures quality but not diversity, as it does not catch models that simply plagiarize from the training set.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Tatsunori B. Hashimoto , Hugh Zhang , Percy Liang

As research on machine translation moves to translating text beyond the sentence level, it remains unclear how effective automatic evaluation metrics are at scoring longer translations. In this work, we first propose a method for creating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Daniel Deutsch , Juraj Juraska , Mara Finkelstein , Markus Freitag

Natural Language Generation (NLG) refers to the operation of expressing the calculation results of a system in human language. Since the quality of generated sentences from an NLG model cannot be fully represented using only quantitative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Dojun Park , Youngjin Jang , Harksoo Kim

The paper surveys evaluation methods of natural language generation (NLG) systems that have been developed in the last few years. We group NLG evaluation methods into three categories: (1) human-centric evaluation metrics, (2) automatic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-19 Asli Celikyilmaz , Elizabeth Clark , Jianfeng Gao

In this work, we explore a useful but often neglected methodology for robustness analysis of text generation evaluation metrics: stress tests with synthetic data. Basically, we design and synthesize a wide range of potential errors and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Tianxing He , Jingyu Zhang , Tianle Wang , Sachin Kumar , Kyunghyun Cho , James Glass , Yulia Tsvetkov

Generative spoken language models pretrained on large-scale raw audio can continue a speech prompt with appropriate content while preserving attributes like speaker and emotion, serving as foundation models for spoken dialogue. In prior…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chan-Jan Hsu , Liang-Hsuan Tseng , Yi-Cheng Lin , Yen-Chun Kuo , Ju-Chieh Chou , Kai-Wei Chang , Hung-yi Lee , Carlos Busso

Automatic evaluation of sequence generation, traditionally reliant on metrics like BLEU and ROUGE, often fails to capture the semantic accuracy of generated text sequences due to their emphasis on n-gram overlap. A promising solution to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Chenglong Wang , Hang Zhou , Kaiyan Chang , Tongran Liu , Chunliang Zhang , Quan Du , Tong Xiao , Yue Zhang , Jingbo Zhu

In this paper we revisit automatic metrics for paraphrase evaluation and obtain two findings that disobey conventional wisdom: (1) Reference-free metrics achieve better performance than their reference-based counterparts. (2) Most commonly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Lingfeng Shen , Lemao Liu , Haiyun Jiang , Shuming Shi

A reliable and comprehensive evaluation metric that aligns with manual preference assessments is crucial for conversational head video synthesis methods development. Existing quantitative evaluations often fail to capture the full…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-03 Mohan Zhou , Yalong Bai , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tiejun Zhao , Tao Mei

Code-mixing, the practice of alternating between two or more languages in an utterance, is a common phenomenon in multilingual communities. Due to the colloquial nature of code-mixing, there is no singular correct way to translate an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ayushman Gupta , Akhil Bhogal , Kripabandhu Ghosh

The success of Deep Learning has created a surge in interest in a wide a range of Natural Language Generation (NLG) tasks. Deep Learning has not only pushed the state of the art in several existing NLG tasks but has also facilitated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Ananya B. Sai , Akash Kumar Mohankumar , Mitesh M. Khapra

Evaluating the quality of generated text automatically remains a significant challenge. Conventional reference-based metrics have been shown to exhibit relatively weak correlation with human evaluations. Recent research advocates the use of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xiao Wang , Daniil Larionov , Siwei Wu , Yiqi Liu , Steffen Eger , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Chenghua Lin

Natural language processing researchers have identified limitations of evaluation methodology for generation tasks, with new questions raised about the validity of automatic metrics and of crowdworker judgments. Meanwhile, efforts to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Jungo Kasai , Keisuke Sakaguchi , Ronan Le Bras , Lavinia Dunagan , Jacob Morrison , Alexander R. Fabbri , Yejin Choi , Noah A. Smith

We survey human evaluation in papers presenting work on creative natural language generation that have been published in INLG 2020 and ICCC 2020. The most typical human evaluation method is a scaled survey, typically on a 5 point scale,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Mika Hämäläinen , Khalid Alnajjar

Automatic metrics are extensively used to evaluate natural language processing systems. However, there has been increasing focus on how they are used and reported by practitioners within the field. In this paper, we have conducted a survey…

We introduce ParaBLEU, a paraphrase representation learning model and evaluation metric for text generation. Unlike previous approaches, ParaBLEU learns to understand paraphrasis using generative conditioning as a pretraining objective.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Jack Weston , Raphael Lenain , Udeepa Meepegama , Emil Fristed