BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT
Article Status
Published
Authors/contributors
- Zhang, Tianyi (Author)
- Kishore, Varsha (Author)
- Wu, Felix (Author)
- Weinberger, Kilian Q. (Author)
- Artzi, Yoav (Author)
Title
BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT
Abstract
We propose BERTScore, an automatic evaluation metric for text generation. Analogously to common metrics, BERTScore computes a similarity score for each token in the candidate sentence with each token in the reference sentence. However, instead of exact matches, we compute token similarity using contextual embeddings. We evaluate using the outputs of 363 machine translation and image captioning systems. BERTScore correlates better with human judgments and provides stronger model selection performance than existing metrics. Finally, we use an adversarial paraphrase detection task to show that BERTScore is more robust to challenging examples when compared to existing metrics.
Repository
arXiv
Archive ID
arXiv:1904.09675
Date
2020-02-24
Citation Key
zhang2020
Accessed
27/10/2023, 17:33
Short Title
BERTScore
Library Catalogue
Extra
arXiv:1904.09675 [cs]
<标题>: BERT评分:使用BERT评估文本生成
Citation
Zhang, T., Kishore, V., Wu, F., Weinberger, K. Q., & Artzi, Y. (2020). BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT (arXiv:1904.09675). arXiv. http://arxiv.org/abs/1904.09675
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