Summary of Wrdscore: New Metric For Evaluation Of Natural Language Generation Models, by Ravil Mussabayev
WRDScore: New Metric for Evaluation of Natural Language Generation Models
by Ravil Mussabayev
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 May 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 A novel method name prediction evaluation metric, called WRDScore, is proposed to overcome limitations in existing metrics for natural language generation models. The metric leverages optimal transport theory and balances precision and recall by defining precision as the maximum inclusion of predicted tokens in the reference sequence and recall as the total cost of mapping the reference sequence to the predicted one. WRDScore computes a harmonic mean of these two complementary metrics, providing a lightweight, normalized, and precision-recall-oriented evaluation framework that aligns well with human judgments. This approach is shown to outperform existing text metrics on a human-curated dataset. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A new way to measure how good language models are at predicting method names has been developed. The problem with current methods is they don’t account for different ways of naming things. To solve this, scientists used an idea called optimal transport to create a new metric called WRDScore. This metric looks at two things: how well the predicted name includes the real name and how much effort it takes to match them up. By combining these two parts, WRDScore gives a fair score that makes sense for both good and bad predictions. Tests on a dataset made by humans showed that this new metric is better than existing methods. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Precision » Recall
