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Re-evaluating Evaluation in Text Summarization

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arxiv 2010.07100 v1 pith:ZQ6WARDJ submitted 2020-10-14 cs.CL cs.IRcs.LG

classification cs.CLcs.IRcs.LG
keywords evaluationmetricssummarizationdatasetstextstandardabstractiveassessing
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Automated evaluation metrics as a stand-in for manual evaluation are an essential part of the development of text-generation tasks such as text summarization. However, while the field has progressed, our standard metrics have not -- for nearly 20 years ROUGE has been the standard evaluation in most summarization papers. In this paper, we make an attempt to re-evaluate the evaluation method for text summarization: assessing the reliability of automatic metrics using top-scoring system outputs, both abstractive and extractive, on recently popular datasets for both system-level and summary-level evaluation settings. We find that conclusions about evaluation metrics on older datasets do not necessarily hold on modern datasets and systems.

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