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Widely used evaluation metrics for text generation either do not work well with longer texts or fail to evaluate all aspects of text quality. In this paper, we introduce a new metric called SMART to mitigate such limitations. Specifically,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Reinald Kim Amplayo , Peter J. Liu , Yao Zhao , Shashi Narayan

When faced with a large number of product reviews, it is not clear that a human can remember all of them and weight opinions representatively to write a good reference summary. We propose an automatic metric to test the prevalence of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Christopher Malon

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for automatic summarization but the reasons behind their successes are poorly understood. By conducting a human evaluation on ten LLMs across different pretraining methods, prompts, and model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Tianyi Zhang , Faisal Ladhak , Esin Durmus , Percy Liang , Kathleen McKeown , Tatsunori B. Hashimoto

Since LLMs emerged, more attention has been paid to abstractive long-form summarization, where longer input sequences indicate more information contained. Nevertheless, the automatic evaluation of such summaries remains underexplored. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Yuchen Fan , Yazhe Wan , Xin Zhong , Haonan Cheng , Ning Ding , Bowen Zhou

With an ever increasing size of text present on the Internet, automatic summary generation remains an important problem for natural language understanding. In this work we explore a novel full-fledged pipeline for text summarization with an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-19 Shibhansh Dohare , Harish Karnick , Vivek Gupta

A number of automatic evaluation metrics have been proposed for natural language generation systems. The most common approach to automatic evaluation is the use of a reference-based metric that compares the model's output with gold-standard…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Takumi Ito , Kees van Deemter , Jun Suzuki

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

Two main approaches for evaluating the quality of machine-generated rationales are: 1) using human rationales as a gold standard; and 2) automated metrics based on how rationales affect model behavior. An open question, however, is how…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Samuel Carton , Anirudh Rathore , Chenhao Tan

Automatic summarization is the process of shortening a set of textual data computationally, to create a subset (a summary) that represents the most important pieces of information in the original text. Existing summarization methods can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Meng Cao

Text summarization plays a crucial role in natural language processing by condensing large volumes of text into concise and coherent summaries. As digital content continues to grow rapidly and the demand for effective information retrieval…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Tohida Rehman , Soumabha Ghosh , Kuntal Das , Souvik Bhattacharjee , Debarshi Kumar Sanyal , Samiran Chattopadhyay

Text summarization is an essential task in natural language processing, and researchers have developed various approaches over the years, ranging from rule-based systems to neural networks. However, there is no single model or approach that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Aleš Žagar , Marko Robnik-Šikonja

A desirable property of a reference-based evaluation metric that measures the content quality of a summary is that it should estimate how much information that summary has in common with a reference. Traditional text overlap based metrics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Daniel Deutsch , Tania Bedrax-Weiss , Dan Roth

Automatic summarization is the process of reducing a text document in order to generate a summary that retains the most important points of the original document. In this work, we study two problems - i) summarizing a text document as set…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jayaprakash Sundararaj

Music autotagging, an established problem in Music Information Retrieval, aims to alleviate the human cost required to manually annotate collections of recorded music with textual labels by automating the process. Many autotagging systems…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2014-10-02 Fabien Gouyon , Bob L. Sturm , Joao Lobato Oliveira , Nuno Hespanhol , Thibault Langlois

Abstractive summarization models typically generate content unfaithful to the input, thus highlighting the significance of evaluating the faithfulness of generated summaries. Most faithfulness metrics are only evaluated on news domain, can…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Sicong Huang , Asli Celikyilmaz , Haoran Li

Specifically focusing on the landscape of abstractive text summarization, as opposed to extractive techniques, this survey presents a comprehensive overview, delving into state-of-the-art techniques, prevailing challenges, and prospective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hassan Shakil , Ahmad Farooq , Jugal Kalita

Many evaluation methods have been used to assess the usefulness of Visual Analytics (VA) solutions. These methods stem from a variety of origins with different assumptions and goals, which cause confusion about their proofing capabilities.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-10-09 Mosab Khayat , Morteza Karimzadeh , David S. Ebert , Arif Ghafoor

Automatic readability assessment plays a key role in ensuring effective and accessible written communication. Despite significant progress, the field is hindered by inconsistent definitions of readability and measurements that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Catarina G Belem , Parker Glenn , Alfy Samuel , Anoop Kumar , Daben Liu

The evaluation of abstractive summarization models typically uses test data that is identically distributed as training data. In real-world practice, documents to be summarized may contain input noise caused by text extraction artifacts or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kundan Krishna , Yao Zhao , Jie Ren , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Jiaming Luo , Mohammad Saleh , Peter J. Liu

Recent studies on automatic note generation have shown that doctors can save significant amounts of time when using automatic clinical note generation (Knoll et al., 2022). Summarization models have been used for this task to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Asma Ben Abacha , Wen-wai Yim , George Michalopoulos , Thomas Lin