Evaluation Protocol

An Evaluation Protocol is a structured protocol that specifies procedural guidelines and methodological standards for conducting systematic evaluations ensuring reproducibility and validity.

• AKA: Assessment Protocol, Evaluation Procedure, Evaluation Methodology, Evaluation Standard.
• Context:
  • It can typically define Evaluation Steps in sequential order.
  • It can typically specify Data Collection Methods and sampling strategys.
  • It can often include Quality Control Measures ensuring data integrity.
  • It can often establish Ethical Guidelines for human evaluation.
  • It can document Evaluation Metrics and calculation methods.
  • It can standardize Annotator Instructions promoting consistency.
  • It can facilitate Evaluation Replication across research groups.
  • It can support Evaluation Comparison through common standards.
  • It can range from being a Simple Evaluation Protocol to being a Comprehensive Evaluation Protocol, depending on its detail level.
  • It can range from being a Domain-Specific Protocol to being a General Protocol, depending on its application scope.
  • It can range from being a Rigid Protocol to being a Flexible Protocol, depending on its adaptation allowance.
  • It can range from being a Manual Protocol to being an Automated Protocol, depending on its execution method.
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• Examples:
  • Standard Evaluation Protocols, such as:
    • WMT Evaluation Protocol for machine translation.
    • TREC Protocol for information retrieval.
    • SemEval Protocol for semantic evaluation.
  • Task-Specific Protocols, such as:
    • Human Evaluation Protocol for subjective assessment.
    • A/B Testing Protocol for system comparison.
    • Crowdsourcing Protocol for scalable evaluation.
  • Quality Assurance Protocols, such as:
    • Inter-Rater Agreement Protocol for reliability check.
    • Bias Mitigation Protocol for fair evaluation.
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• Counter-Examples:
  • Evaluation Metric, which measures rather than prescribes procedure.
  • Evaluation Dataset, which provides data not methodology.
  • Ad-hoc Evaluation, which lacks systematic protocol.
• See: Structured Protocol, Evaluation Framework, Evaluation Methodology, Research Protocol, Experimental Design, Quality Assurance, Reproducible Research.

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