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How interesting and coherent are the stories generated by a large-scale neural language model? Comparing human and automatic evaluations of machine-generated text

Callan, Dominic orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9163-1777, Foster, Jennifer orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-7789-4853 and . (2023) How interesting and coherent are the stories generated by a large-scale neural language model? Comparing human and automatic evaluations of machine-generated text. Expert Systems, 40 (6). ISSN 0266-4720

Abstract
Evaluation of the narrative text generated by machines has traditionally been a challenge, particularly when attempting to evaluate subjective elements such as interest or believability. Recent improvements in narrative machine text generation have been largely driven by the emergence of transformer-based language models, trained on massive quantities of data, resulting in higher quality text generation. In this study, a corpus of stories is generated using the pre-trained GPT-Neo transformer model, with human-written prompts as inputs upon which to base the narrative text. The stories generated through this process are subsequently evaluated through both human evaluation and two automated metrics: BERTScore and BERT Next Sentence Prediction, with the aim of determining whether there is a correlation between the automatic scores and the human judgements. The results show variation in human evaluation results in comparison to modern automated metrics, suggesting further work is required to train automated metrics to identify text that is defined as interesting by humans.
Metadata
Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Additional Information:Article number: e13292
Subjects:Computer Science > Computational linguistics
Computer Science > Machine learning
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Publisher:Wiley
Official URL:https://doi.org/10.1111/exsy.13292
Copyright Information:© 2023 The Authors.
Funders:Open access funding provided by IReL
ID Code:29135
Deposited On:20 Oct 2023 08:47 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 20 Oct 2023 08:47
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