Summary of An In-depth Evaluation Of Gpt-4 in Sentence Simplification with Error-based Human Assessment, by Xuanxin Wu and Yuki Arase
An In-depth Evaluation of GPT-4 in Sentence Simplification with Error-based Human Assessment
by Xuanxin Wu, Yuki Arase
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed study evaluates the performance of advanced large language models (LLMs) in sentence simplification, a crucial technique for enhancing readability for individuals with various reading difficulties. The research focuses on assessing the suitability of existing evaluation methodologies, including automatic metrics and human evaluations, for LLMs. By designing an error-based human annotation framework to assess GPT-4’s simplification capabilities, the study demonstrates that GPT-4 generally generates fewer erroneous outputs compared to current state-of-the-art models. However, limitations are identified in lexical paraphrasing tasks. Furthermore, a meta-evaluation of widely used automatic metrics is conducted using human annotations, revealing their effectiveness for significant quality differences but insufficient sensitivity for high-quality simplification by GPT-4. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This study helps people with reading difficulties by evaluating how well large language models can simplify sentences. The researchers want to know which methods work best for this task and what limitations these models have. They use a special way of annotating human evaluations to understand how well GPT-4 simplifies sentences, showing that it does a good job overall but struggles with rephrasing words. The study also compares different automatic metrics used to evaluate sentence simplification, finding that some are better than others. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Gpt
