Not All Metrics Are Guilty: Improving NLG Evaluation by Diversifying References

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.15067v3
• Date: Sat, 25 May 2024 03:39:55 GMT
• Title: Not All Metrics Are Guilty: Improving NLG Evaluation by Diversifying References
• Authors: Tianyi Tang, Hongyuan Lu, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Haoyang Huang, Dongdong Zhang, Wayne Xin Zhao, Tom Kocmi, Furu Wei,
• Abstract summary: Div-Ref is a method to enhance evaluation benchmarks by enriching the number of references. We conduct experiments to empirically demonstrate that diversifying the expression of reference can significantly enhance the correlation between automatic evaluation and human evaluation.
• Score: 123.39034752499076
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Most research about natural language generation (NLG) relies on evaluation benchmarks with limited references for a sample, which may result in poor correlations with human judgements. The underlying reason is that one semantic meaning can actually be expressed in different forms, and the evaluation with a single or few references may not accurately reflect the quality of the model's hypotheses. To address this issue, this paper presents a simple and effective method, named Div-Ref, to enhance existing evaluation benchmarks by enriching the number of references. We leverage large language models (LLMs) to diversify the expression of a single reference into multiple high-quality ones to cover the semantic space of the reference sentence as much as possible. We conduct comprehensive experiments to empirically demonstrate that diversifying the expression of reference can significantly enhance the correlation between automatic evaluation and human evaluation. This idea is compatible with recent LLM-based evaluation which can similarly derive advantages from incorporating multiple references. We strongly encourage future generation benchmarks to include more references, even if they are generated by LLMs, which is once for all. We release all the code and data at https://github.com/RUCAIBox/Div-Ref to facilitate research.

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