PEDANTS: Cheap But Effective Answer Equivalence
<|reference_start|>PEDANTS: Cheap But Effective Answer Equivalence: Question answering (QA) can only make progress if we know if an answer is correct, but current answer correctness (AC) metrics struggle with verbose, free-form answers from large language models (LLMs). There are two challenges with current short-form QA evaluations: a lack of diverse styles of evaluation data and an over-reliance on expensive and slow LLMs. LLM-based scorers correlate better with humans, but this expensive task has only been tested on limited QA datasets. We rectify these issues by providing rubrics and datasets for evaluating machine QA adopted from the Trivia community. We also propose an efficient, and interpretable QA evaluation that is more stable than an exact match and neural methods(BERTScore).<|reference_end|>
@article{li2024pedants:,
    title={PEDANTS: Cheap but Effective and Interpretable Answer Equivalence},
    author={Zongxia Li, Ishani Mondal, Yijun Liang, Huy Nghiem, Jordan Lee
  Boyd-Graber},
    journal={Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing 2024},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.11161},
    primaryClass={cs.CL cs.AI}
}