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Best practices for the human evaluation of automatically generated text

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    Abstract

    Currently, there is little agreement as to how Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems should be evaluated. While there is some agreement regarding automatic metrics, there is a high degree of variation in the way that human evaluation is carried out. This paper provides an overview of how human evaluation is currently conducted, and presents a set of best practices, grounded in the literature. With this paper, we hope to contribute to the quality and consistency of human evaluations in NLG.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 12th International Conference on Natural Language Generation
    Place of PublicationTokyo, Japan
    PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics
    Pages355-368
    Number of pages14
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Oct 2019
    Event12th International conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019) - Tokyo, Japan
    Duration: 29 Oct 20191 Nov 2019
    https://www.inlg2019.com

    Conference

    Conference12th International conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG 2019)
    Country/TerritoryJapan
    CityTokyo
    Period29/10/191/11/19
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