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author = "Ramesh, Krithika and
Smolyak, Daniel and
Zhao, Zihao and
Gandhi, Nupoor and
Agarwal, Ritu and
Bjarnad{\'o}ttir, Margr{\'e}t V. and
Field, Anjalie",
editor = {Habernal, Ivan and
Schulam, Peter and
Tiedemann, J{\"o}rg},
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations",
month = nov,
year = "2025",
address = "Suzhou, China",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-demos.35/",
pages = "487--499",
ISBN = "979-8-89176-334-0",
abstract = "We present SynthTextEval, a toolkit for conducting comprehensive evaluations of synthetic text. The fluency of large language model (LLM) outputs has made synthetic text potentially viable for numerous applications, such as reducing the risks of privacy violations in the development and deployment of AI systems in high-stakes domains. Realizing this potential, however, requires principled consistent evaluations of synthetic data across multiple dimensions: its utility in downstream systems, the fairness of these systems, the risk of privacy leakage, general distributional differences from the source text, and qualitative feedback from domain experts. SynthTextEval allows users to conduct evaluations along all of these dimensions over synthetic data that they upload or generate using the toolkit{'}s generation module. While our toolkit can be run over any data, we highlight its functionality and effectiveness over datasets from two high-stakes domains: healthcare and law. By consolidating and standardizing evaluation metrics, we aim to improve the viability of synthetic text, and in-turn, privacy-preservation in AI development."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T SynthTextEval: Synthetic Text Data Generation and Evaluation for High-Stakes Domains
%A Ramesh, Krithika
%A Smolyak, Daniel
%A Zhao, Zihao
%A Gandhi, Nupoor
%A Agarwal, Ritu
%A Bjarnadóttir, Margrét V.
%A Field, Anjalie
%Y Habernal, Ivan
%Y Schulam, Peter
%Y Tiedemann, Jörg
%S Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations
%D 2025
%8 November
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Suzhou, China
%@ 979-8-89176-334-0
%F ramesh-etal-2025-synthtexteval
%X We present SynthTextEval, a toolkit for conducting comprehensive evaluations of synthetic text. The fluency of large language model (LLM) outputs has made synthetic text potentially viable for numerous applications, such as reducing the risks of privacy violations in the development and deployment of AI systems in high-stakes domains. Realizing this potential, however, requires principled consistent evaluations of synthetic data across multiple dimensions: its utility in downstream systems, the fairness of these systems, the risk of privacy leakage, general distributional differences from the source text, and qualitative feedback from domain experts. SynthTextEval allows users to conduct evaluations along all of these dimensions over synthetic data that they upload or generate using the toolkit’s generation module. While our toolkit can be run over any data, we highlight its functionality and effectiveness over datasets from two high-stakes domains: healthcare and law. By consolidating and standardizing evaluation metrics, we aim to improve the viability of synthetic text, and in-turn, privacy-preservation in AI development.
%U https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-demos.35/
%P 487-499
Markdown (Informal)
[SynthTextEval: Synthetic Text Data Generation and Evaluation for High-Stakes Domains](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-demos.35/) (Ramesh et al., EMNLP 2025)
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