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Automatic sentence summarization produces a shorter version of a sentence, while preserving its most important information. A good summary is characterized by language fluency and high information overlap with the source sentence. We model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Raphael Schumann , Lili Mou , Yao Lu , Olga Vechtomova , Katja Markert

The creation of a quality summarization dataset is an expensive, time-consuming effort, requiring the production and evaluation of summaries by both trained humans and machines. If such effort is made in one language, it would be beneficial…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-09 Spencer Braun , Oleg Vasilyev , Neslihan Iskender , John Bohannon

In text summarization and simplification, system outputs must be evaluated along multiple dimensions such as relevance, factual consistency, fluency, and grammaticality, and a wide range of possible outputs could be of high quality. These…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yu Lu Liu , Rachel Bawden , Thomas Scialom , Benoît Sagot , Jackie Chi Kit Cheung

Existing benchmarks for summarization quality evaluation often lack diverse input scenarios, focus on narrowly defined dimensions (e.g., faithfulness), and struggle with subjective and coarse-grained annotation schemes. To address these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Yuho Lee , Taewon Yun , Jason Cai , Hang Su , Hwanjun Song

In this paper, we present a proposal for an unsupervised algorithm, P-Summ, that generates an extractive summary of scientific scholarly text to meet the personal knowledge needs of the user. The method delves into the latent semantic space…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Alka Khurana , Vasudha Bhatnagar , Vikas Kumar

Evaluation of a document summarization system has been a critical factor to impact the success of the summarization task. Previous approaches, such as ROUGE, mainly consider the informativeness of the assessed summary and require…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Hanlu Wu , Tengfei Ma , Lingfei Wu , Tariro Manyumwa , Shouling Ji

Summarization quality evaluation is a non-trivial task in text summarization. Contemporary methods can be mainly categorized into two scenarios: (1) reference-based: evaluating with human-labeled reference summary; (2) reference-free:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Shen Gao , Zhitao Yao , Chongyang Tao , Xiuying Chen , Pengjie Ren , Zhaochun Ren , Zhumin Chen

Faithful free-text explanations are important to ensure transparency in high-stakes AI decision-making contexts, but they are challenging to generate by language models and assess by humans. In this paper, we present a measure for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Lingjun Zhao , Hal Daumé

Despite extensive recent advances in summary generation models, evaluation of auto-generated summaries still widely relies on single-score systems insufficient for transparent assessment and in-depth qualitative analysis. Towards bridging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Ben Schaper , Christopher Lohse , Marcell Streile , Andrea Giovannini , Richard Osuala

Coherence of text is an important attribute to be measured for both manually and automatically generated discourse; but well-defined quantitative metrics for it are still elusive. In this paper, we present a metric for scoring topical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Disha Shrivastava , Abhijit Mishra , Karthik Sankaranarayanan

Punctuation and Segmentation are key to readability in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR), often evaluated using F1 scores that require high-quality human transcripts and do not reflect readability well. Human evaluation is expensive,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-28 Piyush Behre , Sharman Tan , Amy Shah , Harini Kesavamoorthy , Shuangyu Chang , Fei Zuo , Chris Basoglu , Sayan Pathak

An important problem of the sequence-to-sequence neural models widely used in abstractive summarization is exposure bias. To alleviate this problem, re-ranking systems have been applied in recent years. Despite some performance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Jeewoo Sul , Yong Suk Choi

Summarizing texts is not a straightforward task. Before even considering text summarization, one should determine what kind of summary is expected. How much should the information be compressed? Is it relevant to reformulate or should the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-16 Paul Tardy , David Janiszek , Yannick Estève , Vincent Nguyen

Human perceptual studies are the gold standard for the evaluation of many research tasks in machine learning, linguistics, and psychology. However, these studies require significant time and cost to perform. As a result, many researchers…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Max Morrison , Brian Tang , Gefei Tan , Bryan Pardo

The proliferation of video content on platforms like YouTube and Vimeo presents significant challenges in efficiently locating relevant information. Automatic video summarization aims to address this by extracting and presenting key content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Jia-Hong Huang

Reliable evaluation of large language model (LLM)-generated summaries remains an open challenge, particularly across heterogeneous domains and document lengths. We conduct a comprehensive meta-evaluation of 14 automatic summarization…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Huyen Nguyen , Haoxuan Zhang , Yang Zhang , Junhua Ding , Haihua Chen

Effective summarisation evaluation metrics enable researchers and practitioners to compare different summarisation systems efficiently. Estimating the effectiveness of an automatic evaluation metric, termed meta-evaluation, is a critically…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Xiang Dai , Sarvnaz Karimi , Biaoyan Fang

Reliable automatic evaluation of summarization systems is challenging due to the multifaceted and subjective nature of the task. This is especially the case for languages other than English, where human evaluations are scarce. In this work,…

Abstractive summarization approaches based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) have recently been proposed to overcome classical likelihood maximization. RL enables to consider complex, possibly non-differentiable, metrics that globally assess…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-05 Thomas Scialom , Sylvain Lamprier , Benjamin Piwowarski , Jacopo Staiano

With the surge in user-generated textual information, there has been a recent increase in the use of summarization algorithms for providing an overview of the extensive content. Traditional metrics for evaluation of these algorithms (e.g.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Anurag Shandilya , Abhisek Dash , Abhijnan Chakraborty , Kripabandhu Ghosh , Saptarshi Ghosh