REFeREE: A REference-FREE Model-Based Metric for Text Simplification
<|reference_start|>REFeREE: A REference-FREE Model-Based Metric for Text Simplification: Text simplification lacks a universal standard of quality, and annotated reference simplifications are scarce and costly. We propose to alleviate such limitations by introducing REFeREE, a reference-free model-based metric with a 3-stage curriculum. REFeREE leverages an arbitrarily scalable pretraining stage and can be applied to any quality standard as long as a small number of human annotations are available. Our experiments show that our metric outperforms existing reference-based metrics in predicting overall ratings and reaches competitive and consistent performance in predicting specific ratings while requiring no reference simplifications at inference time.<|reference_end|>
@article{huang2024referee:,
    title={REFeREE: A REference-FREE Model-Based Metric for Text Simplification},
    author={Yichen Huang, Ekaterina Kochmar},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.17640},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2403.17640},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}