Is Reference Necessary in the Evaluation of NLG Systems? When and Where?

Is Reference Necessary in the Evaluation of NLG Systems? When and Where? Shuqian Sheng author Yi Xu author Luoyi Fu author Jiaxin Ding author Lei Zhou author Xinbing Wang author Chenghu Zhou author 2024-06 text Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) Kevin Duh editor Helena Gomez editor Steven Bethard editor Association for Computational Linguistics Mexico City, Mexico conference publication sheng-etal-2024-reference 10.18653/v1/2024.naacl-long.474 https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.474/ 2024-06 8580 8596