Dancing Between Success and Failure: Edit-level Simplification Evaluation using SALSA (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Traditional human evaluation methods for text simplification often relies on individual, shallow sentence-level ratings, easily affected by the annotator's preference or bias. |
| Approach: | They propose an edit-based human annotation framework that enables holistic and fine-grained text simplification evaluation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework is able to predict sentence- and word-level quality simultaneously and report promising results. |
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