Task: Question Generation
Input (English): We use the BLEU BIBREF30 metric on the validation set for the VQG model training. BLEU is a measure of similitude between generated and target sequences of words, widely used in natural language processing. It assumes that valid generated responses have significant word overlap with the ground truth responses. We use it because in this case we have five different references for each of the generated questions. We obtain a BLEU score of 2.07.

Our chatbot model instead, only have one reference ground truth in training when generating a sequence of words. We considered that it was not a good metric to apply as in some occasions responses have the same meaning, but do not share any words in common. Thus, we save several models with different hyperparameters and at different number of training iterations and compare them using human evaluation, to chose the model that performs better in a conversation.
Output (English): How is performance of this system measured?