Identifying Reliable Evaluation Metrics for Scientific Text Revision (2025.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Effective revision is a critical step in scientific writing, ensuring clarity, coherence, and adherence to academic standards. |
| Approach: | They propose to use ROUGE and BERTScore to assess revision quality . they also examine LLM-as-a-judge approaches to assess instruction-following revisions . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves the accuracy of revision tasks with and without a gold reference. |
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