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Title Can we Evaluate the Quality of Generated Text?
Authors David Hardcastle and Donia Scott
Abstract Evaluating the output of NLG systems is notoriously difficult, and performing assessments of text quality even more so. A range of automated and subject-based approaches to the evaluation of text quality have been taken, including comparison with a putative gold standard text, analysis of specific linguistic features of the output, expert review and task-based evaluation. In this paper we present the results of a variety of such approaches in the context of a case study application. We discuss the problems encountered in the implementation of each approach in the context of the literature, and propose that a test based on the Turing test for machine intelligence offers a way forward in the evaluation of the subjective notion of text quality.
Language Single language
Topics Evaluation methodologies, Generation, Other
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Bibtex @InProceedings{HARDCASTLE08.797,
  author = {David Hardcastle and Donia Scott},
  title = {Can we Evaluate the Quality of Generated Text?},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)},
  year = {2008},
  month = {may},
  date = {28-30},
  address = {Marrakech, Morocco},
  editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Daniel Tapias},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  isbn = {2-9517408-4-0},
  note = {http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/},
  language = {english}
  }

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