How to do human evaluation: A brief introduction to user studies in NLP

Author:

Schuff Hendrik,Vanderlyn Lindsey,Adel Heike,Vu Ngoc Thang

Abstract

AbstractMany research topics in natural language processing (NLP), such as explanation generation, dialog modeling, or machine translation, require evaluation that goes beyond standard metrics like accuracy or F1score toward a more human-centered approach. Therefore, understanding how to design user studies becomes increasingly important. However, few comprehensive resources exist on planning, conducting, and evaluating user studies for NLP, making it hard to get started for researchers without prior experience in the field of human evaluation. In this paper, we summarize the most important aspects of user studies and their design and evaluation, providing direct links to NLP tasks and NLP-specific challenges where appropriate. We (i) outline general study design, ethical considerations, and factors to consider for crowdsourcing, (ii) discuss the particularities of user studies in NLP, and provide starting points to select questionnaires, experimental designs, and evaluation methods that are tailored to the specific NLP tasks. Additionally, we offer examples with accompanying statistical evaluation code, to bridge the gap between theoretical guidelines and practical applications.

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Subject

Artificial Intelligence,Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics,Software

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