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title = "Automatic Pyramid Evaluation Exploiting {EDU}-based Extractive Reference Summaries",
author = "Hirao, Tsutomu and
Kamigaito, Hidetaka and
Nagata, Masaaki",
editor = "Riloff, Ellen and
Chiang, David and
Hockenmaier, Julia and
Tsujii, Jun{'}ichi",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing",
month = oct # "-" # nov,
year = "2018",
address = "Brussels, Belgium",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/D18-1450",
doi = "10.18653/v1/D18-1450",
pages = "4177--4186",
abstract = "This paper tackles automation of the pyramid method, a reliable manual evaluation framework. To construct a pyramid, we transform human-made reference summaries into extractive reference summaries that consist of Elementary Discourse Units (EDUs) obtained from source documents and then weight every EDU by counting the number of extractive reference summaries that contain the EDU. A summary is scored by the correspondences between EDUs in the summary and those in the pyramid. Experiments on DUC and TAC data sets show that our methods strongly correlate with various manual evaluations.",
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%Y Chiang, David
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Markdown (Informal)
[Automatic Pyramid Evaluation Exploiting EDU-based Extractive Reference Summaries](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1450) (Hirao et al., EMNLP 2018)
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