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Beyond Aggregate Scores: Behavioral Correctness Assumptions for Assessing Reference-Based Automatic Evaluation Methods
arXiv cs.AI · Published · 3 min read
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- What happened
- Researchers propose behavioral correctness assumptions to evaluate automatic text evaluation methods beyond aggregate scores, revealing hidden differences between evaluators.
- Why it matters
- Matters when building NLG systems and choosing evaluation metrics, especially when aggregate performance masks problematic scoring behaviors.
- Watch out
- The framework is new and untested at scale. No single evaluator satisfies all proposed assumptions, leaving practical guidance unclear for practitioners.
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