NovAScore: A New Automated Metric for Evaluating Document Level Novelty

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Autori principali: Ai, Lin, Gong, Ziwei, Deshpande, Harshsaiprasad, Johnson, Alexander, Phung, Emmy, Emami, Ahmad, Hirschberg, Julia
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author Ai, Lin
Gong, Ziwei
Deshpande, Harshsaiprasad
Johnson, Alexander
Phung, Emmy
Emami, Ahmad
Hirschberg, Julia
author_facet Ai, Lin
Gong, Ziwei
Deshpande, Harshsaiprasad
Johnson, Alexander
Phung, Emmy
Emami, Ahmad
Hirschberg, Julia
contents The rapid expansion of online content has intensified the issue of information redundancy, underscoring the need for solutions that can identify genuinely new information. Despite this challenge, the research community has seen a decline in focus on novelty detection, particularly with the rise of large language models (LLMs). Additionally, previous approaches have relied heavily on human annotation, which is time-consuming, costly, and particularly challenging when annotators must compare a target document against a vast number of historical documents. In this work, we introduce NovAScore (Novelty Evaluation in Atomicity Score), an automated metric for evaluating document-level novelty. NovAScore aggregates the novelty and salience scores of atomic information, providing high interpretability and a detailed analysis of a document's novelty. With its dynamic weight adjustment scheme, NovAScore offers enhanced flexibility and an additional dimension to assess both the novelty level and the importance of information within a document. Our experiments show that NovAScore strongly correlates with human judgments of novelty, achieving a 0.626 Point-Biserial correlation on the TAP-DLND 1.0 dataset and a 0.920 Pearson correlation on an internal human-annotated dataset.
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spellingShingle NovAScore: A New Automated Metric for Evaluating Document Level Novelty
Ai, Lin
Gong, Ziwei
Deshpande, Harshsaiprasad
Johnson, Alexander
Phung, Emmy
Emami, Ahmad
Hirschberg, Julia
Computation and Language
The rapid expansion of online content has intensified the issue of information redundancy, underscoring the need for solutions that can identify genuinely new information. Despite this challenge, the research community has seen a decline in focus on novelty detection, particularly with the rise of large language models (LLMs). Additionally, previous approaches have relied heavily on human annotation, which is time-consuming, costly, and particularly challenging when annotators must compare a target document against a vast number of historical documents. In this work, we introduce NovAScore (Novelty Evaluation in Atomicity Score), an automated metric for evaluating document-level novelty. NovAScore aggregates the novelty and salience scores of atomic information, providing high interpretability and a detailed analysis of a document's novelty. With its dynamic weight adjustment scheme, NovAScore offers enhanced flexibility and an additional dimension to assess both the novelty level and the importance of information within a document. Our experiments show that NovAScore strongly correlates with human judgments of novelty, achieving a 0.626 Point-Biserial correlation on the TAP-DLND 1.0 dataset and a 0.920 Pearson correlation on an internal human-annotated dataset.
title NovAScore: A New Automated Metric for Evaluating Document Level Novelty
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09249