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FineSurE: Fine-grained Summarization Evaluation using LLMs

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Song, Hwanjun, Su, Hang, Shalyminov, Igor, Cai, Jason, Mansour, Saab·2024·Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

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Automated evaluation is crucial for streamlining text summarization benchmarking and model development, given the costly and timeconsuming nature of human evaluation.Traditional methods like ROUGE do not correlate well with human judgment, while recently proposed LLM-based metrics provide only summary-level assessment using Likertscale scores.This limits deeper model analysis, e.g., we can only assign one hallucination score at the summary level, while at the sentence level, we can count sentences containing hallucinations.To remedy those limitations, we propose FineSurE, a fine-grained evaluator specifically tailored for the summarization task using large language models (LLMs).It also employs completeness and conciseness criteria, in addition to faithfulness, enabling multi-dimensional assessment.We compare various open-source and proprietary LLMs as backbones for FineSurE.In addition, we conduct extensive benchmarking of FineSurE against SOTA methods including NLI-, QA-, and LLM-based methods, showing improved performance especially on the completeness and conciseness dimensions.The code is available at https://github.com/ DISL-Lab/FineSurE-ACL24.

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Song, H., Su, H., Shalyminov, I., Cai, J., & Mansour, S.
Affiliations
  • Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KR)
  • Amazon (United States) (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Published
2024
Pages
906-922
ISSN
0736-587X (ISSN-L)
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W4402667059
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  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
  • National Research Foundation
  • National Research Foundation of Korea
  • Ministry of Science and ICT, South Korea
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Advanced Text Analysis Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Natural Language Processing Techniques
Keywords
hallucination detection, faithfulness, completeness, brevity

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