EMNLP 2022main13 citations

Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation

Rémi Cardon, Adrien Bibal, Rodrigo Wilkens, David Alfter, Magali Norré, Adeline Müller, Watrin Patrick, Thomas François

Abstract

Evaluating automatic text simplification (ATS) systems is a difficult task that is either performed by automatic metrics or user-based evaluations. However, from a linguistic point-of-view, it is not always clear on what bases these evaluations operate. In this paper, we propose annotations of the ASSET corpus that can be used to shed more light on ATS evaluation. In addition to contributing with this resource, we show how it can be used to analyze SARI’s behavior and to re-evaluate existing ATS systems. We present our insights as a step to improve ATS evaluation protocols in the future.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{cardon-etal-2022-linguistic,
    title = "Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation",
    author = {Cardon, R{\'e}mi  and
      Bibal, Adrien  and
      Wilkens, Rodrigo  and
      Alfter, David  and
      Norr{\'e}, Magali  and
      M{\"u}ller, Adeline  and
      Patrick, Watrin  and
      Fran{\c{c}}ois, Thomas},
    editor = "Goldberg, Yoav  and
      Kozareva, Zornitsa  and
      Zhang, Yue",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = dec,
    year = "2022",
    address = "Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.121/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.emnlp-main.121",
    pages = "1842--1866"
}
Linguistic Corpus Annotation for Automatic Text Simplification Evaluation · EMNLP 2022