EMNLP 2024main4 citations

ABSEval: An Agent-based Framework for Script Evaluation

Sirui Liang, Baoli Zhang, Jun Zhao, Kang Liu

Abstract

Recent research indicates that large language models (LLMs) possess a certain degree of script planning capability. However, there is still a lack of focused work on evaluating scripts generated by LLMs. The evaluation of scripts poses challenges due to their logical structure, sequential organization, adherence to commonsense constraints, and open-endedness. In this work, We introduced a novel script evaluation dataset, MCScript, consisting of more than 1,500 script evaluation tasks and steps, and developed an agent-based script evaluation framework, ABSEval, to collaboratively evaluate scripts generated by LLMs. Our experiments demonstrate that ABSEval provides superior accuracy and relevance, aligning closely with human evaluation. We evaluated the script planning capabilities of 15 mainstream LLMs and provided a detailed analysis. Furthermore, we observed phenomena like the key factor influencing the script planning ability of LLM is not parameter size and suggested improvements for evaluating open-ended questions.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{liang-etal-2024-abseval,
    title = "{ABSE}val: An Agent-based Framework for Script Evaluation",
    author = "Liang, Sirui  and
      Zhang, Baoli  and
      Zhao, Jun  and
      Liu, Kang",
    editor = "Al-Onaizan, Yaser  and
      Bansal, Mohit  and
      Chen, Yun-Nung",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
    month = nov,
    year = "2024",
    address = "Miami, Florida, USA",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.691/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.691",
    pages = "12418--12434"
}