Challenge: Existing methods to evaluate summary coherence are often evaluated using disparate datasets and metrics.
Approach: They propose to use automatic evaluation to evaluate coherence of summaries by selecting high-scoring candidates.
Outcome: The proposed methods show that they can perform better on an even playing field.

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Beyond the Tip of the Iceberg: Assessing Coherence of Text Classifiers (2021.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Existing evaluation metrics are compared based on their ability to correlate with humans, but they disagree in the higher-scoring range in which current systems operate.
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Challenge: Existing approaches to model coherence are limited to small newswire corpora . evaluators need to be trained on lexical and document levels to perform evaluations .
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Evaluating Text Coherence at Sentence and Paragraph Levels (2020.lrec-1)

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Challenge: Existing text ordering models have been used to test coherence in NLP for a long time.
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How well do you know your summarization datasets? (2021.findings-acl)

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Challenge: State-of-the-art summarization systems are trained on massive datasets scraped from the web.
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Summarization Evaluation in the Absence of Human Model Summaries Using the Compositionality of Word Embeddings (C18-1)

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Challenge: Existing summary evaluation methods rely on multiple model summaries to evaluate quality of summary outputs.
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A Critical Look at Meta-evaluating Summarisation Evaluation Metrics (2024.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Effective summarisation evaluation metrics enable researchers and practitioners to compare different summarization systems efficiently.
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