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A Gold Standard Methodology for Evaluating Accuracy in Data-To-Text Systems

8 Nov 2020INLG (ACL) 2020 12arXiv:2011.03992archive 2025-07-28

Craig Thomson, Ehud Reiter

Most Natural Language Generation systems need to produce accurate texts. We propose a methodology for high-quality human evaluation of the accuracy of generated texts, which is intended to serve as a gold-standard for accuracy evaluations of data-to-text systems. We use our methodology to evaluate the accuracy of computer generated basketball summaries. We then show how our gold standard evaluation can be used to validate automated metrics

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