Automatic evaluation of texts by using paraphrases

  • Authors:
  • Kazuho Hirahara;Hidetsugu Nanba;Toshiyuki Takezawa;Manabu Okumura

  • Affiliations:
  • Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan;Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan;Graduate School of Information Sciences, Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan;Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan

  • Venue:
  • LTC'09 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Human language technology: challenges for computer science and linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The evaluation of computer-produced texts has been recognized as an important research problem for automatic text summarization and machine translation. Traditionally, computer-produced texts were evaluated automatically by ngram overlap with human-produced texts. However, these methods cannot evaluate texts correctly, if the n-grams do not overlap between computer-produced and human-produced texts, even though the two texts convey the same meaning. We explored the use of paraphrases for the refinement of traditional automatic methods for text evaluation. To confirm the effectiveness of our method, we conducted some experiments using the data from the Text Summarization Challenge 2. We found that the use of paraphrases created using a statistical machine translation technique could improve the traditional evaluation method.