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An automated metric to evaluate dialogue quality is vital for optimizing data driven dialogue management. The common approach of relying on explicit user feedback during a conversation is intrusive and sparse. Current models to estimate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-21 Praveen Kumar Bodigutla , Lazaros Polymenakos , Spyros Matsoukas

Response diversity has become an important criterion for evaluating the quality of open-domain dialogue generation models. However, current evaluation metrics for response diversity often fail to capture the semantic diversity of generated…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Seungju Han , Beomsu Kim , Buru Chang

Building a reliable and automated evaluation metric is a necessary but challenging problem for open-domain dialogue systems. Recent studies proposed evaluation metrics that assess generated responses by considering their relevance to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-19 ChaeHun Park , Minseok Choi , Dohyun Lee , Jaegul Choo

Dialog response ranking is used to rank response candidates by considering their relation to the dialog history. Although researchers have addressed this concept for open-domain dialogs, little attention has been focused on task-oriented…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Junki Ohmura , Maxine Eskenazi

An automated metric to evaluate dialogue quality is vital for optimizing data driven dialogue management. The common approach of relying on explicit user feedback during a conversation is intrusive and sparse. Current models to estimate…

Automatic evaluation metrics are essential for the rapid development of open-domain dialogue systems as they facilitate hyper-parameter tuning and comparison between models. Although recently proposed trainable conversation-level metrics…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Sarik Ghazarian , Nuan Wen , Aram Galstyan , Nanyun Peng

User-centric evaluation has become a key paradigm for assessing Conversational Recommender Systems (CRS), aiming to capture subjective qualities such as satisfaction, trust, and rapport. To enable scalable evaluation, recent work…

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In this paper, we describe a set of metrics for the evaluation of different dialogue management strategies in an implemented real-time spoken language system. The set of metrics we propose offers useful insights in evaluating how particular…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Morena Danieli , Elisabetta Gerbino

The growing number of generative AI-based dialogue systems has made their evaluation a crucial challenge. This paper presents our contribution to this important problem through the Dialogue System Technology Challenge (DSTC-12, Track 1),…

We propose LLM-Eval, a unified multi-dimensional automatic evaluation method for open-domain conversations with large language models (LLMs). Existing evaluation methods often rely on human annotations, ground-truth responses, or multiple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Yen-Ting Lin , Yun-Nung Chen

Evaluating the quality of open-domain chatbots has become increasingly reliant on LLMs acting as automatic judges. However, existing meta-evaluation benchmarks are static, outdated, and lacking in multilingual coverage, limiting their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 John Mendonça , Alon Lavie , Isabel Trancoso

Chatbots are designed to carry out human-like conversations across different domains, such as general chit-chat, knowledge exchange, and persona-grounded conversations. To measure the quality of such conversational agents, a dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Chen Zhang , Luis Fernando D'Haro , Thomas Friedrichs , Haizhou Li

Previous research on multi-party dialogue generation has predominantly leveraged structural information inherent in dialogues to directly inform the generation process. However, the prevalence of colloquial expressions and incomplete…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Zhiyu Cao , Peifeng Li , Qiaoming Zhu

Evaluating the quality and variability of text generated by Large Language Models (LLMs) poses a significant, yet unresolved research challenge. Traditional evaluation methods, such as ROUGE and BERTScore, which measure token similarity,…

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Open-domain human-computer conversation has been attracting increasing attention over the past few years. However, there does not exist a standard automatic evaluation metric for open-domain dialog systems; researchers usually resort to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Chongyang Tao , Lili Mou , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Evaluation of open-domain dialogue systems is highly challenging and development of better techniques is highlighted time and again as desperately needed. Despite substantial efforts to carry out reliable live evaluation of systems in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Tianbo Ji , Yvette Graham , Gareth J. F. Jones , Chenyang Lyu , Qun Liu

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has intensified the need for robust dialogue system evaluation, yet comprehensive assessment remains challenging. Traditional metrics often prove insufficient, and safety considerations…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-18 John Mendonça , Lining Zhang , Rahul Mallidi , Alon Lavie , Isabel Trancoso , Luis Fernando D'Haro , João Sedoc

The lack of reliable automatic evaluation metrics is a major impediment to the development of open-domain dialogue systems. Various reference-based metrics have been proposed to calculate a score between a predicted response and a small set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Jun Gao , Wei Bi , Ruifeng Xu , Shuming Shi

The development of Open-Domain Dialogue Systems (ODS)is a trending topic due to the large number of research challenges, large societal and business impact, and advances in the underlying technology. However, the development of these kinds…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Chen Zhang , João Sedoc , Luis Fernando D'Haro , Rafael Banchs , Alexander Rudnicky

Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs) are widely used to assess medical students' communication skills, but scoring interview-based assessments is time-consuming and potentially subject to human bias. This study explored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Jadon Geathers , Yann Hicke , Colleen Chan , Niroop Rajashekar , Justin Sewell , Susannah Cornes , Rene F. Kizilcec , Dennis Shung