Youbiao He


2022

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SueNes: A Weakly Supervised Approach to Evaluating Single-Document Summarization via Negative Sampling
Forrest Bao | Ge Luo | Hebi Li | Minghui Qiu | Yinfei Yang | Youbiao He | Cen Chen
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies

Canonical automatic summary evaluation metrics, such as ROUGE, focus on lexical similarity which cannot well capture semantics nor linguistic quality and require a reference summary which is costly to obtain. Recently, there have been a growing number of efforts to alleviate either or both of the two drawbacks. In this paper, we present a proof-of-concept study to a weakly supervised summary evaluation approach without the presence of reference summaries. Massive data in existing summarization datasets are transformed for training by pairing documents with corrupted reference summaries. In cross-domain tests, our strategy outperforms baselines with promising improvements, and show a great advantage in gauging linguistic qualities over all metrics.

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PrefScore: Pairwise Preference Learning for Reference-free Summarization Quality Assessment
Ge Luo | Hebi Li | Youbiao He | Forrest Sheng Bao
Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

Evaluating machine-generated summaries without a human-written reference summary has been a need for a long time. Inspired by preference labeling in existing work of summarization evaluation, we propose to judge summary quality by learning the preference rank of summaries using the Bradley-Terry power ranking model from inferior summaries generated by corrupting base summaries. Extensive experiments on several datasets show that our weakly supervised scheme can produce scores highly correlated with human ratings.