Reference-Free Quality Metric

A Reference-Free Quality Metric is a quality metric that is an automatic evaluation metric that can support reference-free evaluation tasks without requiring gold-standard references.

• AKA: Unsupervised Quality Metric, Reference-Less Metric, Quality Estimation Metric, Standalone Quality Metric.
• Context:
  • It can typically assess Output Quality using intrinsic propertys.
  • It can typically measure Fluency through language model scores.
  • It can typically evaluate Coherence via discourse relations.
  • It can typically compute Quality Scores from learned models.
  • It can typically provide Confidence Estimates without human annotations.
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  • It can often employ Pre-Trained Models for quality assessment.
  • It can often combine Multiple Signals for comprehensive evaluation.
  • It can often adapt to Domain-Specific Content through model fine-tuning.
  • It can often correlate with Human Judgments on quality ratings.
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  • It can range from being a Simple Reference-Free Quality Metric to being a Complex Reference-Free Quality Metric, depending on its model sophistication.
  • It can range from being a Single-Aspect Reference-Free Quality Metric to being a Multi-Aspect Reference-Free Quality Metric, depending on its quality dimension coverage.
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  • It can integrate with Language Model for probability scoring.
  • It can interface with Feature Extractor for signal processing.
  • It can connect to Neural Network for quality prediction.
  • It can synchronize with Domain Adapter for specialized evaluation.
  • It can communicate with Real-Time System for online assessment.
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• Example(s):
  • Natural Language Generation Reference-Free Quality Metrics, such as:
    • Grammatical Error Correction Reference-Free Quality Metrics using language model perplexity.
    • Machine Translation Reference-Free Quality Metrics like Quality Estimation scores.
    • Text Generation Reference-Free Quality Metrics using neural quality estimators.
  • Speech Processing Reference-Free Quality Metrics, such as:
    • Speech Quality Reference-Free Metrics like PESQ and STOI.
    • Voice Synthesis Reference-Free Quality Metrics using acoustic models.
  • Image Generation Reference-Free Quality Metrics, such as:
    • Inception Score for generative model evaluation.
    • Fréchet Inception Distance for distribution comparison.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Reference-Based Accuracy Metric, which requires gold-standard comparison.
  • Human Evaluation Score, which needs manual assessment rather than automatic computation.
  • Relative Performance Metric, which compares system outputs rather than assessing absolute quality.
• See: Quality Metric, Automatic Evaluation Metric, Quality Estimation, Unsupervised Evaluation, Language Model, Neural Metric, Performance Assessment.

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