CASPR: Automated Evaluation Metric for Contrastive Summarization

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Hauptverfasser: Ananthamurugan, Nirupan, Duong, Dat, George, Philip, Gupta, Ankita, Tata, Sandeep, Gunel, Beliz
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author Ananthamurugan, Nirupan
Duong, Dat
George, Philip
Gupta, Ankita
Tata, Sandeep
Gunel, Beliz
author_facet Ananthamurugan, Nirupan
Duong, Dat
George, Philip
Gupta, Ankita
Tata, Sandeep
Gunel, Beliz
contents Summarizing comparative opinions about entities (e.g., hotels, phones) from a set of source reviews, often referred to as contrastive summarization, can considerably aid users in decision making. However, reliably measuring the contrastiveness of the output summaries without relying on human evaluations remains an open problem. Prior work has proposed token-overlap based metrics, Distinctiveness Score, to measure contrast which does not take into account the sensitivity to meaning-preserving lexical variations. In this work, we propose an automated evaluation metric CASPR to better measure contrast between a pair of summaries. Our metric is based on a simple and light-weight method that leverages natural language inference (NLI) task to measure contrast by segmenting reviews into single-claim sentences and carefully aggregating NLI scores between them to come up with a summary-level score. We compare CASPR with Distinctiveness Score and a simple yet powerful baseline based on BERTScore. Our results on a prior dataset CoCoTRIP demonstrate that CASPR can more reliably capture the contrastiveness of the summary pairs compared to the baselines.
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spellingShingle CASPR: Automated Evaluation Metric for Contrastive Summarization
Ananthamurugan, Nirupan
Duong, Dat
George, Philip
Gupta, Ankita
Tata, Sandeep
Gunel, Beliz
Computation and Language
Summarizing comparative opinions about entities (e.g., hotels, phones) from a set of source reviews, often referred to as contrastive summarization, can considerably aid users in decision making. However, reliably measuring the contrastiveness of the output summaries without relying on human evaluations remains an open problem. Prior work has proposed token-overlap based metrics, Distinctiveness Score, to measure contrast which does not take into account the sensitivity to meaning-preserving lexical variations. In this work, we propose an automated evaluation metric CASPR to better measure contrast between a pair of summaries. Our metric is based on a simple and light-weight method that leverages natural language inference (NLI) task to measure contrast by segmenting reviews into single-claim sentences and carefully aggregating NLI scores between them to come up with a summary-level score. We compare CASPR with Distinctiveness Score and a simple yet powerful baseline based on BERTScore. Our results on a prior dataset CoCoTRIP demonstrate that CASPR can more reliably capture the contrastiveness of the summary pairs compared to the baselines.
title CASPR: Automated Evaluation Metric for Contrastive Summarization
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15565