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Natural language generation (NLG) spans a broad range of tasks, each of which serves for specific objectives and desires different properties of generated text. The complexity makes automatic evaluation of NLG particularly challenging.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Mingkai Deng , Bowen Tan , Zhengzhong Liu , Eric P. Xing , Zhiting Hu

We present work on summarising deliberative processes for non-English languages. Unlike commonly studied datasets, such as news articles, this deliberation dataset reflects difficulties of combining multiple narratives, mostly of poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-13 M. Arana-Catania , Rob Procter , Yulan He , Maria Liakata

This research set out to identify and structure from online reviews the words and expressions related to customers' likes and dislikes to guide product development. Previous methods were mainly focused on product features. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Tianjun Hou , Bernard Yannou , Yann Leroy , Emilie Poirson

Human feedback has become the de facto standard for evaluating the performance of Large Language Models, and is increasingly being used as a training objective. However, it is not clear which properties of a generated output this single…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Tom Hosking , Phil Blunsom , Max Bartolo

Due to the exponential growth of information and the need for efficient information consumption the task of summarization has gained paramount importance. Evaluating summarization accurately and objectively presents significant challenges,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Dong Yuan , Eti Rastogi , Fen Zhao , Sagar Goyal , Gautam Naik , Sree Prasanna Rajagopal

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

Modern abstractive summarization models often generate summaries that contain hallucinated or contradictory information. In this paper, we propose a simple but effective contrastive learning framework that incorporates recent developments…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-11 I-Chun Chern , Zhiruo Wang , Sanjan Das , Bhavuk Sharma , Pengfei Liu , Graham Neubig

A major challenge for scaling machine learning is training models to perform tasks that are very difficult or time-consuming for humans to evaluate. We present progress on this problem on the task of abstractive summarization of entire…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Jeff Wu , Long Ouyang , Daniel M. Ziegler , Nisan Stiennon , Ryan Lowe , Jan Leike , Paul Christiano

A brief, fluent, and relevant summary can be helpful during program comprehension; however, such a summary does require significant human effort to produce. Often, good summaries are unavailable in software projects, which makes maintenance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yuvraj Virk , Premkumar Devanbu , Toufique Ahmed

Factual consistency is an essential quality of text summarization models in practical settings. Existing work in evaluating this dimension can be broadly categorized into two lines of research, entailment-based and question answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-02 Alexander R. Fabbri , Chien-Sheng Wu , Wenhao Liu , Caiming Xiong

Automated simplification models aim to make input texts more readable. Such methods have the potential to make complex information accessible to a wider audience, e.g., providing access to recent medical literature which might otherwise be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Ashwin Devaraj , William Sheffield , Byron C. Wallace , Junyi Jessy Li

Large Language Models (LLM) are a new class of computation engines, "programmed" via prompt engineering. We are still learning how to best "program" these LLMs to help developers. We start with the intuition that developers tend to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Toufique Ahmed , Kunal Suresh Pai , Premkumar Devanbu , Earl T. Barr

The rapid growth of information on the Internet has led to an overwhelming amount of opinions and comments on various activities, products, and services. This makes it difficult and time-consuming for users to process all the available…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Guan Wang , Weihua Li , Edmund M-K. Lai , Quan Bai

News articles are more than collections of facts; they reflect journalists' framing, shaping how events are presented to the audience. One key aspect of framing is the choice to write in (or quote verbatim) morally charged language as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Enrico Liscio , Michela Lorandi , Pradeep K. Murukannaiah

Research on automated text summarization relies heavily on human and automatic evaluation. While recent work on human evaluation mainly adopted intrinsic evaluation methods, judging the generic quality of text summaries, e.g.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Xiao Pu , Mingqi Gao , Xiaojun Wan

Evidence plays a crucial role in automated fact-checking. When verifying real-world claims, existing fact-checking systems either assume the evidence sentences are given or use the search snippets returned by the search engine. Such methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Xuming Hu , Junzhe Chen , Zhijiang Guo , Philip S. Yu

Recent advances in multi-modal vision and language tasks enable a new set of applications. In this paper, we consider the task of generating natural language fashion feedback on outfit images. We collect a unique dataset, which contains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-18 Gil Sadeh , Lior Fritz , Gabi Shalev , Eduard Oks

Recent advancements in self-attention neural network architectures have raised the bar for open-ended text generation. Yet, while current methods are capable of producing a coherent text which is several hundred words long, attaining…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Eyal Orbach , Yoav Goldberg

The propensity of abstractive summarization models to make factual errors has been studied extensively, including design of metrics to detect factual errors and annotation of errors in current systems' outputs. However, the ever-evolving…

Multimodal conditionality in transformer-based natural language models has demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in the task of product description generation. Recent approaches condition a language model on one or more images and other…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Xiangyu Peng , Michael Sollami