Discuss the evaluation metrics and methodologies used to assess the quality and effectiveness of summarization systems. Explain the challenges involved in evaluating summaries, particularly for abstractive summarization, and highlight some commonly used evaluation metrics.
Discuss the evaluation metrics and methodologies used to assess the quality and effectiveness of summarization systems. Explain the challenges involved in evaluating summaries, particularly for abstractive summarization, and highlight some commonly used evaluation metrics.
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Evaluating the quality and effectiveness of summarization systems, especially for abstractive summarization, is a challenging task due to the subjective nature of summarization and the lack of a single, universally accepted evaluation metric. However, several evaluation metrics and methodologies have been developed to assess the performance of summarization systems.

One common approach is to use reference-based metrics, which compare the generated summaries to human-written reference summaries. These metrics include ROUGE (Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation), which measures the overlap of n-grams between the system summary and the reference summaries, and BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy), which is commonly used in machine translation but can also be applied to summarization evaluation.

Another approach is to use task-based evaluation, where the quality of the summaries is assessed based on their usefulness for specific tasks, such as question answering or information retrieval. This approach aims to evaluate the summaries in a more practical and application-oriented manner.

Human evaluation is also widely used, where human judges assess the quality of the summaries based on criteria such as coherence, informativeness, and fluency. This is considered one of the most reliable evaluation methods but can be time-consuming and expensive.

Evaluating abstractive summaries is particularly challenging because they may use different words and phrases than the original text, making reference-based metrics less accurate. Additionally, abstractive summaries may capture the essence of the text in a different way than human-written summaries, making human evaluation more subjective.
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Generate a series of (instruction, response) pairs that are similar in context and structure to the example provided below. Each pair should consist of a concise instruction followed by an appropriate, detailed response. The instruction should pose a clear task or question, while the response should provide a comprehensive answer or solution that could be understood by someone with a basic understanding of the subject.

Example pair: 
Instruction: Please read this text: 

People consume information in lots of different ways: visually, audibly, through text, and sometimes all three at once. Search engine algorithms like Google’s are advancing to reflect this experience for users. No longer will the algorithms just look at web pages as a single piece of text content. Google will look at all the ways real people consume information: text, images, videos, infographics, tables, charts, and interactive elements that make up a piece of content.

In recent years, we saw the rise of visual search – particularly in image-heavy industries like travel and tourism or ecommerce. Moving into 2023, Google will expand its foothold in multisearch and multisearch near me. 

What does it say about multi-format content in a brief summary?
Response: The text says that people prefer content in different forms like audio, video, or text format. As a result, Google plans to advance the multi-search function and page search algorithms accordingly. 

Your task is to generate more pairs that maintain this level of clarity and detail. The topic is Summarization. Write a long text of instruction by yourself, then summarize the given instruction in a response. Ensure that the responses are informative and accurate, suitable for an educational context. 

Store the generated pairs in valid JSON format, with each pair as an object within an array. Each object should have two key-value pairs: "instruction" and "response". For instance: 

{"contents": [{"instruction": "text", "response": "text"}, {"instruction": "text", "response": "text"}, ...]} 

Remember to maintain consistency in the format and ensure the generated pairs are diverse and cover a broad range of subjects. You must return the response in the asked format and you must not add any additional text in your response.
