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On the interaction of automatic evaluation and task framing in headline style transfer

2021/01/05 by Lorenzo De Mattei, Michele Cafagna, De Mattei, Lorenzo +9
Computer Science · Engineering · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human Motion and Animation #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #Video Analysis and Summarization

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2101.01634

openalex publication_date 2021/01/05 · openalex created_date 2021/01/18 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29

Abstract

An ongoing debate in the NLG community concerns the best way to evaluate systems, with human evaluation often being considered the most reliable method, compared to corpus-based metrics. However, tasks involving subtle textual differences, such as style transfer, tend to be hard for humans to perform. In this paper, we propose an evaluation method for this task based on purposely-trained classifiers, showing that it better reflects system differences than traditional metrics such as BLEU and ROUGE.

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