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BLANC
Introduced by Oleg Vasilyev et al. in Fill in the BLANC: Human-free quality estimation of document summaries
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BLANC is an automatic estimation approach for document summary quality. The goal is to measure the functional performance of a summary with an objective, reproducible, and fully automated method. BLANC achieves this by measuring the performance boost gained by a pre-trained language model with access to a document summary while carrying out its language understanding task on the document's text.
Papers archive 2025-07-28
7 shown of 7, newest first. Repository counts are the archive's code-links table. A Syntology line states what Syntology ran from that paper's harvested code; it is per sample and not a correctness claim.
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Fair Summarization: Bridging Quality and Diversity in Extractive Summaries 12 Nov 2024 · 1 repository · arXiv:2411.07521Syntology ran 4 of 5 samples · 1 unverified · 5 pointer-only (licence)
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Towards Human-Free Automatic Quality Evaluation of German Summarization 13 May 2021 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2105.06027
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Play the Shannon Game With Language Models: A Human-Free Approach to Summary Evaluation 19 Mar 2021 · 0 repositories · arXiv:2103.10918
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Is human scoring the best criteria for summary evaluation? 29 Dec 2020 · 1 repository · arXiv:2012.14602
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Context-Aware Answer Extraction in Question Answering 5 Nov 2020 · 1 repository · arXiv:2011.02687
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Sensitivity of BLANC to human-scored qualities of text summaries 13 Oct 2020 · 1 repository · arXiv:2010.06716
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Fill in the BLANC: Human-free quality estimation of document summaries 23 Feb 2020 · 1 repository · arXiv:2002.09836
Tasks archive 2025-07-28
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Usage over time archive 2025-07-28
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Categories archive 2025-07-28
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