Factual consistency evaluation for text summarization via counterfactual estimation

• Main Authors: XIE, Yuexiang, SUN, Fei, DENG, Yang, LI, Yaliang, DING, Bolin
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Databases and Information Systems
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/9144; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/10147/viewcontent/2021.findings_emnlp.10.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Despite significant progress has been achieved in text summarization, factual inconsistency in generated summaries still severely limits its practical applications. Among the key factors to ensure factual consistency, a reliable automatic evaluation metric is the first and the most crucial one. Howe...