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ROUGE

Last updatedUpdated: by Jakub Žovák · 1 min read

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modified 28.02.2026, 17:23
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topics ROUGE, N-gram Metrics, Summarization Evaluation
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# Definition

$$
\text{ROUGE-N} = \frac{\sum_{S \in {\text{Reference summaries}}} \sum_{\text{gram}n \in S} \text{Count}{\text{match}}(\text{gram}n)}{\sum{S \in {\text{Reference summaries}}} \sum_{\text{gram}_n \in S} \text{Count}(\text{gram}_n)}
$$
Or we can write it as an N-gram recall:
$$
\frac{\text{Total matching N-grams}}{\text{Total N-grams}}
$$

# Types of ROUGE:

  • ROUGE-1: Words (tokens)
  • ROUGE-2: Bigrams
  • ROUGE-L: Longest common subsequence
  • ROUGE-Lsum: Summary-level ROUGE-L