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SemEval-2017 Task 1: Semantic Textual Similarity Multilingual and Crosslingual Focused Evaluation [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, 2017
Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) measures the meaning similarity of sentences. Applications include machine translation (MT), summarization, generation, question answering (QA), short answer grading, semantic search, dialog and conversational systems ...
Daniel Matthew Cer   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Conducting focus groups in realist evaluation

open access: yesEvaluation, 2022
Focus groups are valuable tools for evaluators to help stakeholders to clarify programme theories. In 1987, R.K. Merton, often attributed with the birth of focus groups, wrote about how these were ‘being mercilessly misused’.
A. Manzano
semanticscholar   +1 more source

JGLUE: Japanese General Language Understanding Evaluation

open access: yesInternational Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2022
To develop high-performance natural language understanding (NLU) models, it is necessary to have a benchmark to evaluate and analyze NLU ability from various perspectives. While the English NLU benchmark, GLUE, has been the forerunner, benchmarks are now
Kentaro Kurihara   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

How sustainable human resources management helps in the evaluation and planning of employee loyalty and retention: Can social capital make a difference?

open access: yesEvaluation and Program Planning, 2022
Researchers establish that the current challenges of human resources management to attract and retain talent are based on fostering and increasing the participation of relationships with employees and sustainably managing the organization and teams.
Gabriel Cachón‐Rodríguez   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

SentEval: An Evaluation Toolkit for Universal Sentence Representations [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, 2018
We introduce SentEval, a toolkit for evaluating the quality of universal sentence representations. SentEval encompasses a variety of tasks, including binary and multi-class classification, natural language inference and sentence similarity.
Alexis Conneau, Douwe Kiela
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Methods in realist evaluation: A mapping review.

open access: yesEvaluation and Program Planning, 2022
Realist evaluation is becoming increasingly popular as an evaluation methodology. Its main objective is to uncover the mechanisms that lead to observed outcomes following an intervention and the contextual conditions that enabled this.
Dimitri Renmans   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Laying a Solid Foundation for the Next Generation of Evaluation Capacity Building: Findings from an Integrative Review

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Evaluation, 2022
Evaluation capacity building (ECB) continues to attract the attention and interest of scholars and practitioners. Over the years, models, frameworks, strategies, and practices related to ECB have been developed and implemented.
I. Bourgeois   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

COVID-19 and schooling: evaluation, assessment and accountability in times of crises—reacting quickly to explore key issues for policy, practice and research with the school barometer

open access: yesEducational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 2020
The crisis caused by the COVID-19 virus has far-reaching effects in the field of education, as schools were closed in March 2020 in many countries around the world.
S. Huber, Christoph Helm
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Accountability versus learning in aid evaluation: A practice-oriented exploration of persistent dilemmas

open access: yesEvaluation, 2022
Learning and accountability are customarily defined as ‘the dual purpose’ of development aid evaluation, yet this notion is contested. Based on an overview of the existing literature, we identify four ideal type positions in this debate: (1 ...
Hilde Reinertsen   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The production of scientific and societal value in research evaluation: a review of societal impact assessment methods

open access: yesResearch Evaluation, 2021
Over the past two decades, several methods have been developed to evaluate the societal impact of research. Compared to the practical development of the field, the conceptual development is relatively weak. This review article contributes to the latter
J. Smit, L. Hessels
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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