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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Automatic Text Evaluation through the Lens of Wasserstein Barycenters
%A Colombo, Pierre
%A Staerman, Guillaume
%A Clavel, Chloé
%A Piantanida, Pablo
%Y Moens, Marie-Francine
%Y Huang, Xuanjing
%Y Specia, Lucia
%Y Yih, Scott Wen-tau
%S Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
%D 2021
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
%F colombo-etal-2021-automatic
%X A new metric BaryScore to evaluate text generation based on deep contextualized embeddings (e.g., BERT, Roberta, ELMo) is introduced. This metric is motivated by a new framework relying on optimal transport tools, i.e., Wasserstein distance and barycenter. By modelling the layer output of deep contextualized embeddings as a probability distribution rather than by a vector embedding; this framework provides a natural way to aggregate the different outputs through the Wasserstein space topology. In addition, it provides theoretical grounds to our metric and offers an alternative to available solutions (e.g., MoverScore and BertScore). Numerical evaluation is performed on four different tasks: machine translation, summarization, data2text generation and image captioning. Our results show that BaryScore outperforms other BERT based metrics and exhibits more consistent behaviour in particular for text summarization.
%R 10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.817
%U https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.817/
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.817
%P 10450-10466

Markdown (Informal)

[Automatic Text Evaluation through the Lens of Wasserstein Barycenters](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.817/) (Colombo et al., EMNLP 2021)

• Automatic Text Evaluation through the Lens of Wasserstein Barycenters (Colombo et al., EMNLP 2021)

ACL

• Pierre Colombo, Guillaume Staerman, Chloé Clavel, and Pablo Piantanida. 2021. Automatic Text Evaluation through the Lens of Wasserstein Barycenters. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 10450–10466, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.