BERTScore: Evaluating Text Generation with BERT

作者：Tianyi Zhang, Varsha Kishore, Felix Wu, Kilian Q. Weinberger, Yoav Artzi · 发表于：arXiv (Cornell University) · 年份：2019 · DOI：10.48550/arxiv.1904.09675 · 被引用次数：2073 · 研究领域：Topic Modeling、Natural Language Processing Techniques、Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

We propose BERTScore, an automatic evaluation metric for text generation. Analogously to common metrics, BERTScore computes a similarity score for each token in the candidate sentence with each token in the reference sentence. However, instead of exact matches, we compute token similarity using contextual embeddings. We evaluate using the outputs of 363 machine translation and image captioning systems. BERTScore correlates better with human judgments and provides stronger model selection performance than existing metrics. Finally, we use an adversarial paraphrase detection task to show that BERTScore is more robust to challenging examples when compared to existing metrics.