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Automatic Text Evaluation

Automatic text evaluation is a family of reference-based metrics used to measure the quality of machine-generated text — such as translations, summaries, or natural-language-generation (NLG) outputs — by comparing them to one or more human-written reference texts. Pioneered by Papineni et al. with BLEU in 2002, the field has grown to include n-gram overlap metrics (BLEU, ROUGE) and semantically aware metrics (BERTScore, MoverScore) that capture meaning beyond surface word matches.

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Automatic Text Evaluation (BLEU, ROUGE, BERTScore)
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / text-mining
  • Papineni, K., Roukos, S., Ward, T., & Zhu, W.-J. (2002). BLEU: A Method for Automatic Evaluation of Machine Translation. Proceedings of ACL 2002. · URL
  • Zhang, T., Kishore, V., Wu, F., Weinberger, K. Q., & Artzi, Y. (2020). BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT. Proceedings of ICLR 2020. · URL
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