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Saad Mahamood

5 accepted papers

2025

Real-World Summarization: When Evaluation Reaches Its Limits

EMNLP 2025

We examine evaluation of faithfulness to input data in the context of hotel highlights—brief LLM-generated summaries that capture unique features of accommodations. Through human evaluation campaigns involving categorical error assessment and span-level annotation, we compare traditional metrics, tr

2024

On the Role of Summary Content Units in Text Summarization Evaluation

NAACL 2024short

At the heart of the Pyramid evaluation method for text summarization lie human written summary content units (SCUs). These SCUs areconcise sentences that decompose a summary into small facts. Such SCUs can be used to judge the quality of a candidate summary, possibly partially automated via natural…

2023

A Needle in a Haystack: An Analysis of High-Agreement Workers on MTurk for Summarization

ACL 2023long

To prevent the costly and inefficient use of resources on low-quality annotations, we want a method for creating a pool of dependable annotators who can effectively complete difficult tasks, such as evaluating automatic summarization. Thus, we investigate the recruitment of high-quality Amazon Mecha…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2021

Automatic Construction of Evaluation Suites for Natural Language Generation Datasets

NeurIPS 2021poster

Machine learning approaches applied to NLP are often evaluated by summarizing their performance in a single number, for example accuracy. Since most test sets are constructed as an i.i.d. sample from the overall data, this approach overly simplifies the complexity of language and encourages overfitt…

Cited by 20SourceScholar