Quantifying the Influence of Evaluation Aspects on Long-Form Response Assessment (2025.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Evaluating the outputs of large language models (LLMs) on long-form generative tasks remains challenging. |
| Approach: | They propose to compute an overall quality score as a weighted average of factuality, informative-ness, and formality as compared to previous metrics. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method achieves stronger correlations with human judgments compared to previous metrics. |
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