Johns Hopkins wins HCOMP 2026 Best Paper for reader-centered summarization evaluation
mdredze · x · 2026-10-15
A Johns Hopkins-led team (Isabel Cachola, Mark Dredze, Will Walden, Reno Kriz) won the HCOMP 2026 Best Paper Award for "Information Satisfaction: A Reader-Centered Axis for Summarization Evaluation."
- Venue: ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment, Sept 27–30 at Virginia Tech
- The paper proposes "information satisfaction," a reader-centered axis for evaluating summaries, complementing traditional factuality-style metrics
- First author Cachola is a JHU CLSP alum, now an assistant professor at St. Edward's University
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