ROUGE Score
Category: Protocols & Standards
Category: Protocols & Standards
Definition
ROUGE (Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation) Score is the standard metric for evaluating text summarization systems by measuring overlap with reference summaries.
How It Works
ROUGE calculates recall of n-grams, longest common subsequences, and skip-bigrams between generated and reference summaries. Multiple variants (ROUGE-N, ROUGE-L) capture different aspects.
The metric emphasizes content coverage rather than precision, aligning with summarization goals.
Why It Matters
ROUGE provides automatic evaluation for summarization systems, enabling rapid development cycles. It's the primary metric for comparing summarization models.
Academic papers and competitions use ROUGE scores as the standard benchmark for summarization quality.
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