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Towards Interpretable and Efficient Automatic Reference-Based Summarization Evaluation

7 Mar 2023arXiv:2303.03608archive 2025-07-28

Yixin Liu, Alexander R. Fabbri, Yilun Zhao, PengFei Liu, Shafiq Joty, Chien-Sheng Wu, Caiming Xiong, Dragomir Radev

Interpretability and efficiency are two important considerations for the adoption of neural automatic metrics. In this work, we develop strong-performing automatic metrics for reference-based summarization evaluation, based on a two-stage evaluation pipeline that first extracts basic information units from one text sequence and then checks the extracted units in another sequence. The metrics we developed include two-stage metrics that can provide high interpretability at both the fine-grained unit level and summary level, and one-stage metrics that achieve a balance between efficiency and interpretability. We make the developed tools publicly available at https://github.com/Yale-LILY/AutoACU.

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