ReproHum #0744-02: A Reproduction of the Human Evaluation of Meaning Preservation in “Factorising Meaning and Form for Intent-Preserving Paraphrasing”

Julius Steen, Katja Markert


Abstract
Assessing and improving the reproducibility of human evaluation studies is an ongoing concern in the area of natural language processing. As a contribution to this effort and a part of the ReproHum reproducibility project, we describe the reproduction of a human evaluation study (Hosking and Lapata, 2021) that evaluates meaning preservation in question paraphrasing systems.Our results indicate that the original study is highly reproducible given additional material and information provided by the authors. However, we also identify some aspects of the study that may make the annotation task potentially much easier than those in comparable studies. This might limit the representativeness of these results for best-practices in study design.
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2025.gem-1.51
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Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM²)
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July
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2025
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Vienna, Austria and virtual meeting
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Kaustubh Dhole, Miruna Clinciu
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568–575
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Julius Steen and Katja Markert. 2025. ReproHum #0744-02: A Reproduction of the Human Evaluation of Meaning Preservation in “Factorising Meaning and Form for Intent-Preserving Paraphrasing”. In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Generation, Evaluation and Metrics (GEM²), pages 568–575, Vienna, Austria and virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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ReproHum #0744-02: A Reproduction of the Human Evaluation of Meaning Preservation in “Factorising Meaning and Form for Intent-Preserving Paraphrasing” (Steen & Markert, GEM 2025)
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