Metric & Benchmark

ROUGE

Recall-oriented n-gram and longest-common-subsequence metric for summarisation eval.

Definition

ROUGE (Recall-Oriented Understudy for Gisting Evaluation) measures overlap between generated and reference summaries using n-grams (ROUGE-N), longest common subsequence (ROUGE-L), or skip-bigrams (ROUGE-S). It is the de facto summarisation benchmark scorer.

Common use cases

  • Summarisation
  • Headline generation
  • Paraphrasing

Related terms

    ROUGE — AI Glossary | Railwail