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CEScore: Simple and Efficient Confidence Estimation Model for Evaluating Split and Rephrase

3 Dec 2023arXiv:2312.01356archive 2025-07-28

AlMotasem Bellah Al Ajlouni, Jinlong Li

The split and rephrase (SR) task aims to divide a long, complex sentence into a set of shorter, simpler sentences that convey the same meaning. This challenging problem in NLP has gained increased attention recently because of its benefits as a pre-processing step in other NLP tasks. Evaluating quality of SR is challenging, as there no automatic metric fit to evaluate this task. In this work, we introduce CEScore, as novel statistical model to automatically evaluate SR task. By mimicking the way humans evaluate SR, CEScore provides 4 metrics (Sscore, Gscore, Mscore, and CEscore) to assess simplicity, grammaticality, meaning preservation, and overall quality, respectively. In experiments with 26 models, CEScore correlates strongly with human evaluations, achieving 0.98 in Spearman correlations at model-level. This underscores the potential of CEScore as a simple and effective metric for assessing the overall quality of SR models.

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