HEvAS: Headline Evaluation and Analysis System

Marina Litvak, Natalia Vanetik, Itzhak Eretz Kdosha


Abstract
Automatic headline generation is a subtask of one-line summarization with many reported applications. Evaluation of systems generating headlines is a very challenging and undeveloped area. We introduce the Headline Evaluation and Analysis System (HEvAS) that performs automatic evaluation of systems in terms of a quality of the generated headlines. HEvAS provides two types of metrics– one which measures the informativeness of a headline, and another that measures its readability. The results of evaluation can be compared to the results of baseline methods which are implemented in HEvAS. The system also performs the statistical analysis of the evaluation results and provides different visualization charts. This paper describes all evaluation metrics, baselines, analysis, and architecture, utilized by our system.
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W19-8910
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Proceedings of the Workshop MultiLing 2019: Summarization Across Languages, Genres and Sources
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September
Year:
2019
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Varna, Bulgaria
Editor:
George Giannakopoulos
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RANLP
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INCOMA Ltd.
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73–80
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https://aclanthology.org/W19-8910
DOI:
10.26615/978-954-452-058-8_010
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Marina Litvak, Natalia Vanetik, and Itzhak Eretz Kdosha. 2019. HEvAS: Headline Evaluation and Analysis System. In Proceedings of the Workshop MultiLing 2019: Summarization Across Languages, Genres and Sources, pages 73–80, Varna, Bulgaria. INCOMA Ltd..
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HEvAS: Headline Evaluation and Analysis System (Litvak et al., RANLP 2019)
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