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Our summarizer's ROUGE score improved, but users find more factual errors. What would you measure and ship?

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Separate reference overlap from faithful meaning. Build a decision from claim errors, omissions and the reader's task.

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A meeting summarizer has a higher reference-overlap score, but users report factual errors. This is a fictional paired evaluation on the same transcripts.

Scenario inputs
Evaluation200 transcripts, unchanged references and ROUGE implementation.
Old modelMean ROUGE-L F1 0.42; 8 summaries contain a critical factual error.
New modelMean ROUGE-L F1 0.47; 18 summaries contain a critical factual error.
Missing informationPer-transcript paired error labels and the severity policy still need inspection.

Your task. Make a release decision, design the error review and identify what evidence would justify reversing your call.

Separate reference overlap from faithful meaning. Build a decision from claim errors, omissions and the reader's task.

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