@inproceedings{feng-etal-2025-causalscore,
    title = "{C}ausal{S}core: An Automatic Reference-Free Metric for Assessing Response Relevance in Open-Domain Dialogue Systems",
    author = "Feng, Tao  and
      Qu, Lizhen  and
      Kang, Xiaoxi  and
      Haffari, Gholamreza",
    editor = "Rambow, Owen  and
      Wanner, Leo  and
      Apidianaki, Marianna  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Eugenio, Barbara Di  and
      Schockaert, Steven",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics",
    month = jan,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/jlcl-multiple-ingestion/2025.coling-main.161/",
    pages = "2351--2369"
}