Abstract
Most current state-of-the art systems for generating English text from Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) have been evaluated only using automated metrics, such as BLEU, which are known to be problematic for natural language generation. In this work, we present the results of a new human evaluation which collects fluency and adequacy scores, as well as categorization of error types, for several recent AMR generation systems. We discuss the relative quality of these systems and how our results compare to those of automatic metrics, finding that while the metrics are mostly successful in ranking systems overall, collecting human judgments allows for more nuanced comparisons. We also analyze common errors made by these systems.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.coling-main.420
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Barcelona, Spain (Online)
- Venue:
- COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- International Committee on Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 4773–4786
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.coling-main.420
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.420
- Cite (ACL):
- Emma Manning, Shira Wein, and Nathan Schneider. 2020. A Human Evaluation of AMR-to-English Generation Systems. In Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics, pages 4773–4786, Barcelona, Spain (Online). International Committee on Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Human Evaluation of AMR-to-English Generation Systems (Manning et al., COLING 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/auto-file-uploads/2020.coling-main.420.pdf