What Are We Measuring in NLG? A Meta-Analysis of Evaluation Trends 2020-2025

arXiv:2601.07648 · cs.CL · Submitted 2026-01-12 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2026-01-12

Updated: 2026-10-13

Comments: Accepted at EMNLP 2026

Code: https://github.com/kermitt2/grobid

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Papers — 4× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Alignment — 1× in this paper
• As Natural Language Generation — 1× in this paper
• LLM-as-a-Judge — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes

Sources

• Evaluation of Text Generation: A Survey
• DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
• A Survey on LLM-as-a-Judge
• LLMs-as-Judges: A Comprehensive Survey on LLM-based Evaluation Methods
• gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card
• Qwen3 Technical Report

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