120 - Evaluation of Text Generation, with Asli Celikyilmaz

We invited Asli Celikyilmaz for this episode to talk about evaluation of text generation systems. We discussed the challenges in evaluating generated text, and covered human and automated metrics, with a discussion of recent developments in learning metrics. We also talked about some open research questions, including the difficulties in evaluating factual correctness of generated text. Asli Celikyilmaz is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. Link to a survey co-authored by Asli on this topic: https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14799

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