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This paper deals with a new strategy to evaluate a Natural Language Processing (NLP) complex task using the Turing test. Automatic summarization based on sentence compression requires to asses informativeness and modify inner sentence structures. This is much more intrinsically related with real rephrasing than plain sentence extraction and ranking paradigm so new evaluation methods are needed. We propose a novel imitation game to evaluate Automatic Summarization by Compression (ASC). Rationale of this Turing-like evaluation could be applied to many other NLP complex tasks like Machine translation or Text Generation. We show that a state of the art ASC system can pass such a test and simulate a human summary in 60% of the cases.
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Molina, A., SanJuan, E., Torres-Moreno, JM. (2013). A Turing Test to Evaluate a Complex Summarization Task. In: Forner, P., Müller, H., Paredes, R., Rosso, P., Stein, B. (eds) Information Access Evaluation. Multilinguality, Multimodality, and Visualization. CLEF 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8138. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40802-1_9
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