Language, speech & LLMs· 2004
ROUGE: A Package for Automatic Evaluation of Summaries
On the reading lists
- #318 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #50 in Language, speech & LLMs (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Established ROUGE metrics, the dominant automatic evaluation framework for text summarization.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2004 (from OpenAlex)
- Citations
- 22,647 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.431 · computed rank 318 · consensus 0.27, must-read 0, citations percentile 1 (2000s · language), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.