The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics

Sebastian Gehrmann; Tosin Adewumi; Karmanya Aggarwal; Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi; Anuoluwapo Aremu; Antoine Bosselut; Khyathi Raghavi Chandu; Miruna-Adriana Clinciu; Dipanjan Das; Kaustubh Dhole; Wanyu Du; Esin Durmus; Ondřej Dušek; Chris Chinenye Emezue; Varun Gangal; Cristina Garbacea; Tatsunori Hashimoto; Yufang Hou; Yacine Jernite; Harsh Jhamtani; Yangfeng Ji; Shailza Jolly; Mihir Kale; Dhruv Kumar; Faisal Ladhak; Aman Madaan; Mounica Maddela; Khyati Mahajan; Saad Mahamood; Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder; Pedro Henrique Martins; Angelina McMillan-Major; Simon Mille; Emiel van Miltenburg; Moin Nadeem; Shashi Narayan; Vitaly Nikolaev; Andre Niyongabo Rubungo; Salomey Osei; Ankur Parikh; Laura Perez-Beltrachini; Niranjan Ramesh Rao; Vikas Raunak; Juan Diego Rodriguez; Sashank Santhanam; João Sedoc; Thibault Sellam; Samira Shaikh; Anastasia Shimorina; Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo; Hendrik Strobelt; Nishant Subramani; Wei Xu; Diyi Yang; Akhila Yerukola; Jiawei Zhou

The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics

Sebastian Gehrmann
, Tosin Adewumi
, Karmanya Aggarwal
, Pawan Sasanka Ammanamanchi
, Anuoluwapo Aremu
, Antoine Bosselut
, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu
, Miruna-Adriana Clinciu
, Dipanjan Das
, Kaustubh Dhole
, Wanyu Du
, Esin Durmus
, Ondřej Dušek
, Chris Chinenye Emezue
, Varun Gangal
, Cristina Garbacea
, Tatsunori Hashimoto
, Yufang Hou
, Yacine Jernite
, Harsh Jhamtani

Yangfeng Ji, Shailza Jolly, Mihir Kale, Dhruv Kumar, Faisal Ladhak, Aman Madaan, Mounica Maddela, Khyati Mahajan, Saad Mahamood, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Pedro Henrique Martins, Angelina McMillan-Major, Simon Mille, Emiel van Miltenburg, Moin Nadeem, Shashi Narayan, Vitaly Nikolaev, Andre Niyongabo Rubungo, Salomey Osei, Ankur Parikh, Laura Perez-Beltrachini, Niranjan Ramesh Rao, Vikas Raunak, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Sashank Santhanam, João Sedoc, Thibault Sellam, Samira Shaikh, Anastasia Shimorina, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Hendrik Strobelt, Nishant Subramani, Wei Xu, Diyi Yang, Akhila Yerukola, Jiawei Zhou

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We introduce GEM, a living benchmark for natural language Generation (NLG), its Evaluation, and Metrics. Measuring progress in NLG relies on a constantly evolving ecosystem of automated metrics, datasets, and human evaluation standards. Due to this moving target, new models often still evaluate on divergent anglo-centric corpora with well-established, but flawed, metrics. This disconnect makes it challenging to identify the limitations of current models and opportunities for progress. Addressing this limitation, GEM provides an environment in which models can easily be applied to a wide set of tasks and in which evaluation strategies can be tested. Regular updates to the benchmark will help NLG research become more multilingual and evolve the challenge alongside models. This paper serves as the description of the data for the 2021 shared task at the associated GEM Workshop.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM 2021)
Place of Publication	Online
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	96-120
Number of pages	25
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2021
Event	Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics - Berkeley Hotel, Thailand Duration: 5 Aug 2021 → 6 Aug 2021 Conference number: 1 https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/first-workshop-generation-evaluation-and-metrics-acl-2021

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Conference	Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics
Abbreviated title	GEM2021
Country/Territory	Thailand
Period	5/08/21 → 6/08/21
Internet address	https://www.aclweb.org/portal/content/first-workshop-generation-evaluation-and-metrics-acl-2021

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Gehrmann, S., Adewumi, T., Aggarwal, K., Ammanamanchi, P. S., Aremu, A., Bosselut, A., Chandu, K. R., Clinciu, M.-A., Das, D., Dhole, K., Du, W., Durmus, E., Dušek, O., Emezue, C. C., Gangal, V., Garbacea, C., Hashimoto, T., Hou, Y., Jernite, Y., ... Zhou, J. (2021). The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics. In Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM 2021) (pp. 96-120). Association for Computational Linguistics. https://aclanthology.org/2021.gem-1.10

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Gehrmann, S, Adewumi, T, Aggarwal, K, Ammanamanchi, PS, Aremu, A, Bosselut, A, Chandu, KR, Clinciu, M-A, Das, D, Dhole, K, Du, W, Durmus, E, Dušek, O, Emezue, CC, Gangal, V, Garbacea, C, Hashimoto, T, Hou, Y, Jernite, Y, Jhamtani, H, Ji, Y, Jolly, S, Kale, M, Kumar, D, Ladhak, F, Madaan, A, Maddela, M, Mahajan, K, Mahamood, S, Majumder, BP, Martins, PH, McMillan-Major, A, Mille, S, van Miltenburg, E, Nadeem, M, Narayan, S, Nikolaev, V, Niyongabo Rubungo, A, Osei, S, Parikh, A, Perez-Beltrachini, L, Rao, NR, Raunak, V, Rodriguez, JD, Santhanam, S, Sedoc, J, Sellam, T, Shaikh, S, Shimorina, A, Sobrevilla Cabezudo, MA, Strobelt, H, Subramani, N, Xu, W, Yang, D, Yerukola, A & Zhou, J 2021, The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics. in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM 2021). Association for Computational Linguistics, Online, pp. 96-120, Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics , Thailand, 5/08/21. <https://aclanthology.org/2021.gem-1.10>

The GEM Benchmark: Natural Language Generation, its Evaluation and Metrics. / Gehrmann, Sebastian; Adewumi, Tosin; Aggarwal, Karmanya et al.
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Natural Language Generation, Evaluation, and Metrics (GEM 2021). Online: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021. p. 96-120.

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