Automatic, Meta and Human Evaluation for Multimodal Summarization with Multimodal Output (2024.naacl-long)
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| Challenge: | Multimodal summarization with multimodal output (MSMO) has attracted increasing research interest . evaluation is an emerging yet underexplored research topic . |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that studies three research questions of MSMO evaluation . they propose an automatic evaluation metric and a meta-evaluation benchmark dataset . |
| Outcome: | The proposed evaluation metric and human-annotated meta-evaluation benchmark are used to assess the quality of evaluation metrics and show the framework is effective. |
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