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FineSurE: Fine-grained Summarization Evaluation using LLMs

Year: 2024
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Automated evaluation is crucial for streamlining text summarization benchmarking and model development, given the costly and timeconsuming nature of human evaluation.Traditional methods like ROUGE do not correlate well with human judgment, while recently proposed LLM-based metrics provide only summary-level assessment using Likertscale scores.This limits deeper model analysis, e.g., we can only assign one hallucination score at the summary level, while at the sentence level, we can count sentences containing hallucinations.To remedy those limitations, we propose FineSurE, a fine-grained evaluator specifically tailored for the summarization task using large language models (LLMs).It also employs completeness and conciseness criteria, in addition to faithfulness, enabling multi-dimensional assessment.We compare various open-source and proprietary LLMs as backbones for FineSurE.In addition, we conduct extensive benchmarking of FineSurE against SOTA methods including NLI-, QA-, and LLM-based methods, showing improved performance especially on the completeness and conciseness dimensions.The code is available at https://github.com/ DISL-Lab/FineSurE-ACL24.
Language: English
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W4402667059
FWCI: 9.398
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