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

5 Jan 2021ACL (EvalNLGEval, INLG) 2020 12arXiv:2101.01634archive 2025-07-28

Lorenzo De Mattei, Michele Cafagna, Huiyuan Lai, Felice Dell'Orletta, Malvina Nissim, Albert Gatt

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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