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Automatic evaluation of summaries using N-gram co-occurrence statistics
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Following the recent adoption by the machine translation community of automatic evaluation using the BLEU/NIST scoring process, we conduct an in-depth study of a similar idea for evaluating summaries. The results show that automatic evaluation using unigram co-occurrences between summary pairs correlates surprising well with human evaluations, based on various statistical metrics; while direct application of the BLEU evaluation procedure does not always give good results.
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- Authors
- Lin, C.-Y., & Hovy, E.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 2003 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Human Language Technology - NAACL '03
- Published
- 2003
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- 1
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- 71-78
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- W2150824314
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- 36.82
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- conference paper
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- en
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