Accurate and Nuanced Open-QA Evaluation Through Textual Entailment

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Autores principales: Yao, Peiran, Barbosa, Denilson
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author Yao, Peiran
Barbosa, Denilson
author_facet Yao, Peiran
Barbosa, Denilson
contents Open-domain question answering (Open-QA) is a common task for evaluating large language models (LLMs). However, current Open-QA evaluations are criticized for the ambiguity in questions and the lack of semantic understanding in evaluators. Complex evaluators, powered by foundation models or LLMs and pertaining to semantic equivalence, still deviate from human judgments by a large margin. We propose to study the entailment relations of answers to identify more informative and more general system answers, offering a much closer evaluation to human judgment on both NaturalQuestions and TriviaQA while being learning-free. The entailment-based evaluation we propose allows the assignment of bonus or partial marks by quantifying the inference gap between answers, enabling a nuanced ranking of answer correctness that has higher AUC than current methods.
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spellingShingle Accurate and Nuanced Open-QA Evaluation Through Textual Entailment
Yao, Peiran
Barbosa, Denilson
Computation and Language
Open-domain question answering (Open-QA) is a common task for evaluating large language models (LLMs). However, current Open-QA evaluations are criticized for the ambiguity in questions and the lack of semantic understanding in evaluators. Complex evaluators, powered by foundation models or LLMs and pertaining to semantic equivalence, still deviate from human judgments by a large margin. We propose to study the entailment relations of answers to identify more informative and more general system answers, offering a much closer evaluation to human judgment on both NaturalQuestions and TriviaQA while being learning-free. The entailment-based evaluation we propose allows the assignment of bonus or partial marks by quantifying the inference gap between answers, enabling a nuanced ranking of answer correctness that has higher AUC than current methods.
title Accurate and Nuanced Open-QA Evaluation Through Textual Entailment
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.16702