Abstract
Recent advances in automatic text summarization have contemporaneously been accompanied by a great deal of new metrics of automatic evaluation. This in turn has inspired recent research to re-assess these evaluation metrics to see how well they correlate with each other as well as with human evaluation, mostly focusing on single-document summarization (SDS) tasks. Although many of these metrics are typically also used for evaluating multi-document summarization (MDS) tasks, so far, little attention has been paid to studying them under such a distinct scenario. To address this gap, we present a systematic analysis of the inter-metric correlations for MDS tasks, while comparing and contrasting the results with SDS models. Using datasets from a wide range of domains (news, peer reviews, tweets, dialogues), we thus study a unified set of metrics under both the task setups. Our empirical analysis suggests that while most reference-based metrics show fairly similar trends across both multi- and single-document summarization, there is a notable lack of correlation between reference-free metrics in multi-document summarization tasks.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.gem-1.40
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid)
- Editors:
- Antoine Bosselut, Khyathi Chandu, Kaustubh Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann, Yacine Jernite, Jekaterina Novikova, Laura Perez-Beltrachini
- Venue:
- GEM
- SIG:
- SIGGEN
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 428–438
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.gem-1.40
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.gem-1.40
- Cite (ACL):
- Michael Ridenour, Ameeta Agrawal, and Olubusayo Olabisi. 2022. Assessing Inter-metric Correlation for Multi-document Summarization Evaluation. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM), pages 428–438, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (Hybrid). Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Assessing Inter-metric Correlation for Multi-document Summarization Evaluation (Ridenour et al., GEM 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/improve-issue-templates/2022.gem-1.40.pdf