CausalScore: An Automatic Reference-Free Metric for Assessing Response Relevance in Open-Domain Dialogue Systems Tao Feng author Lizhen Qu author Xiaoxi Kang author Gholamreza Haffari author 2025-01 text Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics Owen Rambow editor Leo Wanner editor Marianna Apidianaki editor Hend Al-Khalifa editor Barbara Di Eugenio editor Steven Schockaert editor Association for Computational Linguistics Abu Dhabi, UAE conference publication feng-etal-2025-causalscore https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.161/ 2025-01 2351 2369