reference text
An expert's response to a prompt.
Plain English Explanation
An expert's response to a prompt. For example, given the following prompt: Translate the question "What is your name?" from English to French. An expert's response might be: Comment vous appelez-vous? Various metrics (such as ROUGE) measure the degree to which the reference text matches an ML model's generated text.
How is it used?
Practitioners refer to reference text when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.