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Improvements in text generation technologies such as machine translation have necessitated more costly and time-consuming human evaluation procedures to ensure an accurate signal. We investigate a simple way to reduce cost by reducing the…

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Longitudinal clinical notes contain rich evidence of how patients evolve over time, but converting this signal into training supervision for clinical prediction remains challenging. We extend Foresight Learning to clinical prediction by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Benjamin Turtel , Paul Wilczewski , Kris Skotheim

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…

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Conversational tones -- the manners and attitudes in which speakers communicate -- are essential to effective communication. Amidst the increasing popularization of Large Language Models (LLMs) over recent years, it becomes necessary to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Dun-Ming Huang , Pol Van Rijn , Ilia Sucholutsky , Raja Marjieh , Nori Jacoby

Typical user-friendly renderings of knowledge graphs are visualisations and natural language text. Within the latter HCI solution approach, data-driven natural language generation systems receive increased attention, but they are often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Zola Mahlaza , C. Maria Keet , Jarryd Dunn , Matthew Poulter

Research and development on conversational recommender systems (CRSs) critically depends on sound and reliable evaluation methodologies. However, the interactive nature of these systems poses significant challenges for automatic evaluation.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Nolwenn Bernard , Krisztian Balog

Automated UI evaluation can be beneficial for the design process; for example, to compare different UI designs, or conduct automated heuristic evaluation. LLM-based UI evaluation, in particular, holds the promise of generalizability to a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Peitong Duan , Chin-yi Chen , Gang Li , Bjoern Hartmann , Yang Li

Automatic evaluation of language generation systems is a well-studied problem in Natural Language Processing. While novel metrics are proposed every year, a few popular metrics remain as the de facto metrics to evaluate tasks such as image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Ozan Caglayan , Pranava Madhyastha , Lucia Specia

\Ac{LFQA} aims to generate lengthy answers to complex questions. This scenario presents great flexibility as well as significant challenges for evaluation. Most evaluations rely on deterministic metrics that depend on string or n-gram…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Ning Xian , Yixing Fan , Ruqing Zhang , Maarten de Rijke , Jiafeng Guo

Despite the recent advances in open-domain dialogue systems, building a reliable evaluation metric is still a challenging problem. Recent studies proposed learnable metrics based on classification models trained to distinguish the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-26 ChaeHun Park , Seungil Chad Lee , Daniel Rim , Jaegul Choo

Regular documentation of progress notes is one of the main contributors to clinician burden. The abundance of structured chart information in medical records further exacerbates the burden, however, it also presents an opportunity to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Sarvesh Soni , Dina Demner-Fushman

The task of automated code review has recently gained a lot of attention from the machine learning community. However, current review comment evaluation metrics rely on comparisons with a human-written reference for a given code change…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Atharva Naik , Marcus Alenius , Daniel Fried , Carolyn Rose

While human evaluation is the most reliable metric for evaluating speech generation systems, it is generally costly and time-consuming. Previous studies on automatic speech quality assessment address the problem by predicting human…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-12 Soumi Maiti , Yifan Peng , Takaaki Saeki , Shinji Watanabe

Automatic dialogue response evaluator has been proposed as an alternative to automated metrics and human evaluation. However, existing automatic evaluators achieve only moderate correlation with human judgement and they are not robust. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Tianyu Zhao , Divesh Lala , Tatsuya Kawahara

Human-annotated preference data play an important role in aligning large language models (LLMs). In this paper, we study two connected questions: how to monitor the quality of human preference annotators and how to incentivize them to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Shang Liu , Hanzhao Wang , Zhongyao Ma , Xiaocheng Li

The aim of this paper is to mitigate the shortcomings of automatic evaluation of open-domain dialog systems through multi-reference evaluation. Existing metrics have been shown to correlate poorly with human judgement, particularly in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Prakhar Gupta , Shikib Mehri , Tiancheng Zhao , Amy Pavel , Maxine Eskenazi , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Automatically evaluating the quality of responses in open-domain dialogue systems is a challenging but crucial task. Current evaluation metrics often fail to align with human judgments, especially when assessing responses that are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Tao Feng , Lizhen Qu , Xiaoxi Kang , Gholamreza Haffari

Feedback is a critical component of the learning process, particularly in computer science education. This study investigates the quality of feedback generated by Large Language Models (LLMs), Small Language Models (SLMs), compared with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Suqing Liu , Bogdan Simion , Christopher Eaton , Michael Liut

There is a growing interest in creating tools to assist in clinical note generation using the audio of provider-patient encounters. Motivated by this goal and with the help of providers and medical scribes, we developed an annotation scheme…

A robust evaluation metric has a profound impact on the development of text generation systems. A desirable metric compares system output against references based on their semantics rather than surface forms. In this paper we investigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-27 Wei Zhao , Maxime Peyrard , Fei Liu , Yang Gao , Christian M. Meyer , Steffen Eger