The Authenticity Gap in Human Evaluation

arXiv:2205.11930 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-08-17 · Read on arXiv

Kawin Ethayarajh, Dan Jurafsky

cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-08-17

Updated: 2026-08-19

Terminology

• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Axioms — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Human-in-the-Loop — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Evaluation of Text Generation: A Survey
• GENIE: Toward Reproducible and Standardized Human Evaluation for Text Generation
• Deconstructing NLG Evaluation: Evaluation Practices, Assumptions, and Their Implications

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